....what community!
Not that I hold any of you accountable. That would be audacious. How dare I; you have your own lives to live and how presumptuous of me to think I would hold wick in even the outro. Still...5 months?
Well, a poem, then. No one gives a damn about poetry.
On Insidery
How can I answer
My own questions
When I can't even do the research
The library's burned to the ground
All the old journals were lost
In that first flood
In that second flood
Anyway, they're illegible
Through the tears
I can't hear the Earth
Through my toes anymore
The wind no longer
Sings to me
The rain is just cold water
The snow is no longer
And overturned treasure box
Of glittering diamonds
Just snow, wet and plain
The dancers in the fire
Have left, in search of
A brighter flame
Have left in search of
A brighter flame
I'm not getting older
Aging never worried me
I'm fading
Soon, I'll just be the Shadow
- Shadow? -
Who watches as you
Howl to the Moon, a twinkle in Her eye
Cleanse yourself in the waters of Her Sea
Giggle when the rays of the Sun kiss your skin, ever coy is He
Deliciously shudder, rolling in Her verdant fields
The intensity of Her colors exploding allwhere
When you think you see a shadow -
- Shadow? -
observing
From behind a tree
Near a shrub
By a rock
You light a match
The shadow
- Shadow? -
vanishes
And when the match comes to its end
The shadow
- Shadow? -
does not return
How can I if I don't have
The Answer?
And if I have no answers
Was I ever really here at all?
/SH
10/9/16
Georgia 5
Not that I hold any of you accountable. That would be audacious. How dare I; you have your own lives to live and how presumptuous of me to think I would hold wick in even the outro. Still...5 months?
Well, a poem, then. No one gives a damn about poetry.
On Insidery
How can I answer
My own questions
When I can't even do the research
The library's burned to the ground
All the old journals were lost
In that first flood
In that second flood
Anyway, they're illegible
Through the tears
I can't hear the Earth
Through my toes anymore
The wind no longer
Sings to me
The rain is just cold water
The snow is no longer
And overturned treasure box
Of glittering diamonds
Just snow, wet and plain
The dancers in the fire
Have left, in search of
A brighter flame
Have left in search of
A brighter flame
I'm not getting older
Aging never worried me
I'm fading
Soon, I'll just be the Shadow
- Shadow? -
Who watches as you
Howl to the Moon, a twinkle in Her eye
Cleanse yourself in the waters of Her Sea
Giggle when the rays of the Sun kiss your skin, ever coy is He
Deliciously shudder, rolling in Her verdant fields
The intensity of Her colors exploding allwhere
When you think you see a shadow -
- Shadow? -
observing
From behind a tree
Near a shrub
By a rock
You light a match
The shadow
- Shadow? -
vanishes
And when the match comes to its end
The shadow
- Shadow? -
does not return
How can I if I don't have
The Answer?
And if I have no answers
Was I ever really here at all?
/SH
10/9/16
Georgia 5
