24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
I have been writing poems since second grade when I won was recognized for writing a poem about Abraham Lincoln. After that I was hooked and thus began a lifetime of poetry as a way of life. I wrote constantly throughout school. I wrote poems in math class. I wrote poems in science class. It was all I wanted to do. In college I majored in creative writing and my final project was a poetry book. Recently I moved to Ventura, California and won a poetry contest hosted by Ventura county. It is my love and it is my passion.
I’ve been trying to live my life lately
as if tomorrow’s tomorrow will never come.
After seeing angels fall from grace
and demons grow beards and walk with canes.
I realize my time here was gifted
By a man with no face.
So I take each morning,
fold it up in my backpack
and head out for the sunrise.
I kiss each evening on the lips
and tuck in my fears of what is to come.
It is there in the place
between slumber and awake
that I’m with you.
You wrap me up in all that is safe
and for that one moment
we are all that we ever wanted to be.
We are the versions of ourselves
we swore we’d turn out to be.
The two we never quite made it to.