I’m not sure how I feel about eternity now As an escape, it’s flawed because you can never come back As a feeling, it’s frustrating because sometimes you just want to get on with it And what sort of eternity are we talking about? Is…
Category: Half Marathon Poem
Speak (Hour 1)
SPEAK Rolling thunder beats against the heavens, a blanket of darkening clouds promising to tear back the supernatural veil. as the wind violently whips through the towering treetops, holding us back. Breathe. Speak to the Sky. The storms that wage within and without have no…
hour 3: parallel lines
Parallel lines and parallel lives We kept our hands to ourselves, our arms straighten to our sides straighter than a straightjacket It was like I was the flame and you were the fuel, and if our eyes met the wrong way you would provoke me…
Eternity
Can’t forget the night, that moment, The confidence I had, yet lingering on the nervousness, As we took our first step, towards a new chapter, The vows we took, the seven rounds, the seven vows, Making me yours for eternity, And eternity seemed now, Now…
Little Cabin in the Valley
Do you remember the little cabin out in the valley? Remember how the snows would come rushing through with howling noise that sent us running for the warmth of that cabin? Nights were long and cold, but the stars shone bright and the wonders of…
My Solace
My solace Is where I hear no cry And when my heart Speaks to the mind For, things done And the things undone The heart, which is barren And lost all hope You can start afresh Says the mind This time, do…
Broken Windows
Silence. Finally. I am open now, and empty desolate, desiccated and free from the meat bags. It took them long enough despite the hunger the heat and the thunder. Cold now, freezing and blistery I don’t have to worry about burning up…
A battered life
I stand in resistance to the forces that would change me. Taking blows from all sides, my weathering shows. I am dwarfed by the mountains that surround my fractured soul. Peeking out from dispair trying to fill the hollow. Beauty in the eyes of some…
Dancing Shadow (Hour 3)
The silhouette of my soul is a dancing shadow, A bestial revelry in the last hours of day, I beckon the advancing throat of night. I celebrate the freedom of my spirit with swaying arms that could embrace the entire horizon. I expel the filing…
Eternity, Now
Exhausted from the debate From the not-knowing From the never knowing — Her questions were too much And their answers never enough. So She chose to enter eternity Sooner rather than later. Rest, my friend. Rest now, And for eternity. …