How do you sleep the night before
The day when the sun will come in line
With hearts of fire that’ll rest no more
In the wake of passion,
waiting for a sign
& how would you sleep
if the world at hand
was an abysmal dead end
or a purgatory
how could you wish for it to go as planned
to decontextualize a human story?
To find no word of a better world
The beginning becomes the conclusion
A chapter filled with fleeting void
The crooked path to disillusion
A summer’s night spent in the cold of a tomb
Lifetime with a brain that melts all desires,
all lies we believe, repeat & consume
& with a slow, shaky hand that always inspires
Always the same, frantic, reflective
A puzzle that’s missing a piece or a few
patterns observed from a different perspective
all of them real & many untrue
sleepless forever? fulfilled today
I had a great ride, tout le monde
How much can change if I get to stay;
how much when you find out I’ve gone beyond?
N.B.
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Some nice, unforced rhyming here, along with thoughtful lines that combine to make a grand poem.
took me a while to learn how to do that.. thank you.. i read some of your stuff & i think it’s pretty great, so i’m glad there’s more people to make this little community here greater 🙂
Yeah, it seems like a nice, small community here. Hopefully, we can all help and inspire each other and grow together as poet freaks.
Sometimes I feel like sleep is the only true escape from a ruined world. Great language! Dismal, but captivating.
thank you so much 🙂 good to know you’ve enjoyed it
Broooooo…
that opening stanza is so.. so..
UGH! Why didn’t I think of that!?
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Always feel blessed to catch your word’s.
Truly inspiring.
you can’t think of every brilliant thing in poetry, leave some for us xD thanks bro! 🙂
Poetry is taking words and put them in a certain order. Sometimes it feels like all the combinations have been done and then you. With new words, new ideas. I love “decontextualize”, what an audacious word to use in a piece.
I love the switch to French on the “tout le monde”, I’d like to think it’s a big up for me, after all you’re responsible for what you write but not what we understand.
I also feel like something has changed. We keep on reading you and in a sense we witness your stylistic as well as personal evolution. Maybe some liberation? Your words are like the feeling after getting high.
Well, sorry for the mess, I’ll clean later.
the experience of writing this was in a way liberating.. anything I could’ve thought about myself at that moment, good or bad, I simply wrote it down, without a specific order, but with an underlying theme.. I have no idea where I’ll go from here tho.. but i guess that’s the beauty of it
comparing it to the feeling after getting high must be the best thing someone said bout my work lol thanks man! 🙂
loved this, though I can’t say why…more an emotional connection I think…thank you. well crafted rhymes btw
no, thank you for reading.. it’s only a combination of words.. you do the rest of the job by reading, & it means giving it life..
I see why you have so many followers! This was a sort of brooding and reflective poem.I took it mean that after it was all said and done, life had a bleak and meaningless end . Not sure if that’s what you were trying to portray.?? I guess we all interpret differently.
You were right about it.. however, the lack of meaning to me doesn’t make life less valuable.. in a way, we’re free to give it our own meaning.. thanks for the kind words 🙂