An excerpt of a poem of mine
Category: Poetry
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An excerpt from one of my poems read by me.
Tranquility
When the sun sets
And the moon is crescent and thin
When darkness covers the lights within
Candles flicker
In the village above the clouds
And I see the tranquility of a world passing by
Growth
The girl missed seeing
The creatures hiding in the brush
And the song they sang
When all else was hush
But the girl, a woman now
Replaced fun with a crown
And bare feet
With shoes too tight
The girl, in the woman
Looks on in the dark night
Hoping to see them again
Scars
He counted the moles covering her skin
As he brushed away the cloth that hid what’s within
And for once
She did not feel the shame
Of scars she cared not name
Enough
She admired the bird flying free
The rooted tree
Yet she knew she wouldn’t want to be
Anything other than herself
To her
She was just enough
Perception
They mistook ignorance for courage
A child chasing fires thinking they
were fireflies
Innocence of a hand that’s never been burned
One that hasn’t learned that everything dies
Soul
The world is ending
Can’t you tell
They stole her sun
They dried her well
The moon is lonely
The days are dark
And I am watching
A tiny spark
Daring to call itself a flame
You know it by a different name
Pyre
There were ugly things crawling in her reality
Nightmares becoming a background noise
She turned a blind eye to so many
And became blind all at once
As the pyre lit
She stood thankful for its warmth
Ballerina
She lacked a sewing kit
To piece herself back together
The threads ran free
She looked for a lost tether
As she unraveled
She knew She might get lost
And what another move could cost
She spun
Until she vanished in thin air
The ballerina could no longer care
About what tied her to this realm
And she set herself free
From all of them
Of threads too thin and shoes too tight
The ballerina still dances through the night
On a stage of her own making
Stranger Paths 