I want to paint the world with words unspoken
Watch them spread to each corner of the earth
Until the words spill off the end
And the pens that will one day send
The world into a suspended animation
That no one can even hope, dream, strive to comprehend
Will extend a helping hand to the friend called love.
I want to catch a thousand words in a net made of dreams,
Forgotten aspirations and watch it split at the seams
Because things aren't always what they seem
And my dad used to tell me that life is like a fish that swims upstream.
Difficult, but never impossible.
I want to hear the trees that fall in the forest and no one's there
You think you know me
You think after a few words, a cup of coffee a smile
You get to know who I am
YOU don't know ANYTHING
I'll tell you what you think you know
That everyday i come to school with a smile on my face
and sometimes I don't.
Some days I won't talk to anyone
and some days I won't shut up
but most days I stay silent.
You think I can't stay out of everyone's drama
and it hurts me to be wedged in the middle of a rock
and a hard place.
And you are wrong.
Because I am always smiling
even if you can't see it with your eyes
I am always talking if you would tune
your ears to my station
and listen past the static
And
Sometimes i think that i can't handle the world
That this time
This time i'll finally be crushed
Into a flat, tiny nothing and in that moment
All the pain and heartbreak, all the PRESSURE will finally be released
-
Sometimes i find a bit of solace in these thoughts
but i never cave in, i never let go
And just like Atlas in those Greek stories i read as a child
I carry the WORLD on my shoulders and i wonder
Did he ever want to let go?
Be crushed into nothing?
-
And i figure he must have
He LITERALLY felt the world on his shoulders
As it bore down on him and THAT was pressure
And he MUST have wished there was som
sometimes i think that maybe i can shield myself from everything, that maybe with a big enough shield, i can hid behind it while all the garbage and refuse that the world threw at me. i never learned anything else, but one day i realized that this shield, this shield that had protected me for about ten years was only the size of a quarter. And i was a little girl. So i thought maybe if i threw the quarter away and i started all over again and took a shower and got clean again, it wouldnt be so bad. It didnt work. i was still dirty, and i still smelled like the world's garbage again so i went back and again, i got clean. And the garbage kept
A
great bird that settles in the heart of hearts
of all man, that which bends his will and sets his soul
aflame with desire and passion
The
fire that lights every action, reaction, proaction and detraction
the weight that wieghs heavily on his breast
as he searches high and low for an item that cannot exist in a simple word
Or
an object that can be attained through rigorous search and seizure
no deep and profound insights, revalations, sudden understanding of
an aspect as old as time and just as relentless
It
shall never lie in a complicated equation or years of a sorrow that has bathed
in repentance and careful resol
a
thousand nights i have waited
for this single, moment in time
when eyes wide shut
dream dreams of the ecstacy of escape
a
pure form of complete release
where the creatures of the night run rampant
in a wild frenzy bursting through the brush into tangibility
and filling the abyss of unreality till it overflows the mind
the
final moments, before the slumber overcomes
me, i catch a glimpse of my forbidden fruit, a black
hole that beckons with a pull almost irresistible
and impossible to deny
the
ebony mare who gallops in the darkest
recesses of the mind, where my presence alone
provokes madness and insanity, le
tears fall a heavy speed
but they will never quell your courage.
the stones they throw
the lies they tell
the hate that eats away at their very bieng
do not dispair, your time will come.
empathize for their lack of human compassion
the windows of opportunity,
the doors are far beyond their grasp until they learn
until they see that they were wrong.
what you have acheived without them
these friends and lovers who tried to drag you down to their level
and succeeded to strengthen your resolve.
they never understood the burden that you carried all alone
and yet, perhaps they did.
the burden of hiding tears, holding you
The eyes of night upon us
The darkness seems to reign
When all can seem so lost
A smile cleaves the pain
An innocence is found
The days might seem so long
The nights seem so unclear
When tragedy befell the young
There came the endless tears
But patience has rewards
As families have come to pray
The clouds will come to part,
The rain which seemed so endless
Will finally cease - while in the heart
The rose that blooms so beautifully
And grows without its thorns
Will soon be seen by once blind eyes
While the child's laughter fills the air
The past, which seems so imminent
Is distant memory
A
Light
Pierces
Through the
Painful darkness
As you are lifted
Toward the light, your body lying
Far below, you see life as it truly is. seeing
The pain, happiness, enemies, laughter, tears, friends, love, each beautiful in their own way
A
Heart
That beats
Slowly in
The dead of night as
The cars rushing by lull you to sleep
In a way that dead silence never could. the heart of
The city could, is, as it should be, the people it cradles in leiu of silence
I want to paint the world with words unspoken
Watch them spread to each corner of the earth
Until the words spill off the end
And the pens that will one day send
The world into a suspended animation
That no one can even hope, dream, strive to comprehend
Will extend a helping hand to the friend called love.
I want to catch a thousand words in a net made of dreams,
Forgotten aspirations and watch it split at the seams
Because things aren't always what they seem
And my dad used to tell me that life is like a fish that swims upstream.
Difficult, but never impossible.
I want to hear the trees that fall in the forest and no one's there
You think you know me
You think after a few words, a cup of coffee a smile
You get to know who I am
YOU don't know ANYTHING
I'll tell you what you think you know
That everyday i come to school with a smile on my face
and sometimes I don't.
Some days I won't talk to anyone
and some days I won't shut up
but most days I stay silent.
You think I can't stay out of everyone's drama
and it hurts me to be wedged in the middle of a rock
and a hard place.
And you are wrong.
Because I am always smiling
even if you can't see it with your eyes
I am always talking if you would tune
your ears to my station
and listen past the static
And
Sometimes i think that i can't handle the world
That this time
This time i'll finally be crushed
Into a flat, tiny nothing and in that moment
All the pain and heartbreak, all the PRESSURE will finally be released
-
Sometimes i find a bit of solace in these thoughts
but i never cave in, i never let go
And just like Atlas in those Greek stories i read as a child
I carry the WORLD on my shoulders and i wonder
Did he ever want to let go?
Be crushed into nothing?
-
And i figure he must have
He LITERALLY felt the world on his shoulders
As it bore down on him and THAT was pressure
And he MUST have wished there was som
sometimes i think that maybe i can shield myself from everything, that maybe with a big enough shield, i can hid behind it while all the garbage and refuse that the world threw at me. i never learned anything else, but one day i realized that this shield, this shield that had protected me for about ten years was only the size of a quarter. And i was a little girl. So i thought maybe if i threw the quarter away and i started all over again and took a shower and got clean again, it wouldnt be so bad. It didnt work. i was still dirty, and i still smelled like the world's garbage again so i went back and again, i got clean. And the garbage kept
A
great bird that settles in the heart of hearts
of all man, that which bends his will and sets his soul
aflame with desire and passion
The
fire that lights every action, reaction, proaction and detraction
the weight that wieghs heavily on his breast
as he searches high and low for an item that cannot exist in a simple word
Or
an object that can be attained through rigorous search and seizure
no deep and profound insights, revalations, sudden understanding of
an aspect as old as time and just as relentless
It
shall never lie in a complicated equation or years of a sorrow that has bathed
in repentance and careful resol
a
thousand nights i have waited
for this single, moment in time
when eyes wide shut
dream dreams of the ecstacy of escape
a
pure form of complete release
where the creatures of the night run rampant
in a wild frenzy bursting through the brush into tangibility
and filling the abyss of unreality till it overflows the mind
the
final moments, before the slumber overcomes
me, i catch a glimpse of my forbidden fruit, a black
hole that beckons with a pull almost irresistible
and impossible to deny
the
ebony mare who gallops in the darkest
recesses of the mind, where my presence alone
provokes madness and insanity, le
tears fall a heavy speed
but they will never quell your courage.
the stones they throw
the lies they tell
the hate that eats away at their very bieng
do not dispair, your time will come.
empathize for their lack of human compassion
the windows of opportunity,
the doors are far beyond their grasp until they learn
until they see that they were wrong.
what you have acheived without them
these friends and lovers who tried to drag you down to their level
and succeeded to strengthen your resolve.
they never understood the burden that you carried all alone
and yet, perhaps they did.
the burden of hiding tears, holding you
The eyes of night upon us
The darkness seems to reign
When all can seem so lost
A smile cleaves the pain
An innocence is found
The days might seem so long
The nights seem so unclear
When tragedy befell the young
There came the endless tears
But patience has rewards
As families have come to pray
The clouds will come to part,
The rain which seemed so endless
Will finally cease - while in the heart
The rose that blooms so beautifully
And grows without its thorns
Will soon be seen by once blind eyes
While the child's laughter fills the air
The past, which seems so imminent
Is distant memory
A
Light
Pierces
Through the
Painful darkness
As you are lifted
Toward the light, your body lying
Far below, you see life as it truly is. seeing
The pain, happiness, enemies, laughter, tears, friends, love, each beautiful in their own way
A
Heart
That beats
Slowly in
The dead of night as
The cars rushing by lull you to sleep
In a way that dead silence never could. the heart of
The city could, is, as it should be, the people it cradles in leiu of silence
My First and Last War Poem by LadyEponine, literature
Literature
My First and Last War Poem
When he came back from the war,
all he saw was shrapnel.
Not like the sort on the battlefield,
at home there were no bodies,
there was no thick sticky blood on his hand,
She stood at the beach,
brushed back a strand of hair
a jellyfish washed onto shore.
She knew only the dead were that clear
and it reminded her of the poisonings:
dead cats and dogs curled in balls along the sidewalk
after some jerk littered the doorsteps
steaks marinated in cyanide.
instead, he watched his family,
watched himself at the dinner
table as if he weren't even eating
swallowed the potatoes and wondered
"where is the metallic flavor;"
"where is th