Thursday, February 9, 2012

an eye for and eye, a life for a choice


What started out as a normal day escalated,
The piles grew larger than life, or so in a sense.
My life had become these piles.
Saying that would be telling a lie,
These pile consumed my life.
There was not a crumb left for me to look back to.
This had started out a simple task,
Once a day, to twice a day,
Soon the environment I was placed in became home,
Letting myself feel comfortable was my downfall.
Soon enough I was not alone, I had friends and places to go,
Every night seemed like a blessing, this happiness I was feeling bought forth by people other than me.
And there, in the place I called home the pile waited,
The pile was rejected and they were vengeful.
Anticipating my movements, it hid. Making me struggle
When I thought I had found it, it was gone.
Sounds echoing from wall to wall
What had happened here?
Was the pile trying to consume me as well?
The shadow from my bottomed feet, stripped from my sole
I didn’t know what was going on,
How did I let it get let to this level?
I bellowed with every nerve rattling in my body “what do you want from me!”
The breath completely lifted out of me.
Fear had filled in the courage that was rapidly exiting my body
My skin pale, as if all the pigments in my skin decided to die together
A suicide of my organ, the organ that had always protected me.
I had brought this upon myself
Procrastination with I hint of laziness
The words that I couldn’t bring out of my mouth, as simple as I’m sorry.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Poem on an image i saw one day on my travels, this is a free write no constraints on lines or styles


One way bound

A calm wind that won’t  move blades of grass,
Sun sparking down as if trying to join in with,
The wind that is caring the words of the people as it travels from east to west.
The distance is far but you feel so close
The details present, the emotions high.
The loud speaker bellows commands

The wind, the sun, and even the people muted to the muffled sound created only inches away
10,
And people follow like mindless drones, but not me
5,
Their shouts growing with every increased number
2,
At one,
 Everyone goes silent.

A cloud of dust flies toward everything like a meteor had hit the earth
The heat is warmth unlike anything I’ve felt before
Heart racing and my temples rise to look at the sky now filled with something brighter than the sun
This hope that contains my dreams and passions
It screams at me
“Come along with me! I’ll take you there!”
And within seconds my friend is gone, and the wind and people leave.

I sit and ask the sun what it’s like to have the view from up there
but it never responds back and I can’t help but draw a smile to my lips.