Monday, September 8, 2008

Some Poetry...


Some poetry....
This is some of the poetry that I've written over the year. It's not poetry in the rhyming sense but it's lines and thoughts. I hope you enjoy it, I write it to simplify some of the thoughts inside of me and get them out on paper. This first one I wrote for my mother...

I am sorry that I hurt you

I am sorry that I make you feel bad

Do not take it as your fault

That I am the way I am

You do you best for me

Everyday and in Everyway

You have shown me love

And guided me every step

Of my two decades of life

Now I’m supposed to

Set out on my own

Yet this big world

Still frightens me so

So do not take it as your fault

That as I’m letting go

Of your hand

That I continue to fall

Just knowing that you

Will be there to help

Me off of the ground

Is help enough

Someday I will learn

How to approach this life

And this world on my own

But until I do so

Thank you for picking me back up

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There is a dark and dusty corner of my mind

That often I try to wander to in my thoughts

The memories in that corner

A year and a half’s worth

But always I pull myself away

For I know that while the memories are good

They will only bring pain

And so that corner sits

One day I will let myself wander there

And uncover all the memories

Of love and of loss

But not today

Not today

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“Promise me,

Promise me that no matter what happens

We will always be friends.”

“Of course I promise,” I say smiling

Gently taking her hand in mine

On that cool October night

How the world has changed

I’ve watched her slip away from me

To become only a shadow of what once was

I made a promise

As did she

A promise for our friendship

But here I am, I see her there

She gives no sign of recognition

Not even acknowledging I’m there

And I think back to her words

On that magical night two years ago

And I can almost here her say

“I promise”

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Please don’t look at me that way

You don’t know me

You have never spoken to me

You judge me off of what she says about me

Off of the things I may or may not have done

The things that are in the past now

Please don’t look at me that way

Please just leave me alone

Please don’t judge me.

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I want to love again

To feel so in harmony with another

For long I was afraid of hurt

Yet now I do not care

I want to love again

I need to love again

Without it anger reigns over my soul

Jealousy and the desire to see…

To see other love fail as mine

I need to love again

I hope I can love again

The agony twisted up inside

A fear of trust and devotion

Frighten to share my heart

I hope I can love again

Dear God I hope I can

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(This one I wrote is about an actual dream I had where in snow covered woods a priest lay dying. I wish I knew the meanings of dreams)


There he lay

A man of God

Caught and maimed

By war

Life flowing away from his mortal flesh

Though his eyes still are clear

As he lay in the battle torn forest

Whispering a prayer

With the breath he has left

The pain is nothing

The man of god knows

He is going to be with his father

The last drops of life

Leave him

And his body relaxes on the ground

A peaceful look on his face

A look of joy

2 comments:

Marty said...

Not bad, not bad at all.

The one about the priest is cool. I wonder what made you think of that...

Anonymous said...

" i promise" blew me away

you write very elegant prose