Once, the edges of the world melted and merged And the corners scurried away, afraid to even attempt containing what sat between them. Where there had been substance, memories soaked up the space like saturated paper growing fibrous and faint. Even the ground couldn’t stand to watch, Because it knew its concrete heart would break…
Tag: poetry
It was never mine
Your words are transparent, in ordered lines they run with a simple message. But still I peer into their depths to find it there. Alone. The spark of your anguish. Although it stings through my thin tears, I have to watch it flicker and against my instinct leave it there, undisturbed. Because the cold truth…
Falling for tomorrow
I know how it feels to take a fall I know what it is to lose it all When the walls are closing in There’s no simple way to win So my night is day is night And every step’s a fight Please don’t say I can’t rewrite What’s gone down in black and white…
I will soar
Perched, precarious rushing for land or horizon A generous, cold embrace for anyone anything encountered. Pure power, surging, guttural The resolution is fraught with violent potential In a frantic search for some minute fissure Through which to pour that sliding inevitable Once it creeps, finally in motion I will soar. Photo: GollyGforce, Creative Commons.
Enough
Adrift in the unsaid my vision lacks the depth to pierce the gloom and discover what might be enough. This monotonous fight leaves me coiled in the cyclical silence anticipating the moment I draw the line and realise I have swallowed enough. Anger, grief, shame and love what could ever calm that raging tempest? I…
Passenger
Sitting small, holding the pieces as I rush through our life She’s along for the ride my silent passenger Jealously watching as I ignore her and forget willfully her fallibility and imperfections Her green eyes wishing she’d learned to break before me Longing for a different story, a narrative rewritten with self upheld Instead of…
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