Mathieu: Poems

Mathieu Apr 2022

Lately, I've been stronger, than I've been

The ghosts don't creep and nights don't sew together,

Every rising sun, casts a shadow.

I shouldn't think about you, I know

The seasons change, but my love, it grows.

As we wind along the ocean road,

just to see how far it goes.

But it always sets.

It always

ends

in

shadow.

#ocean #road #sunset #shadow

Then You Were Gone...

Mathieu Apr 2021

Then You Were Gone...

You promised me,
As your shirt fell to the floor,
and the bumps on your skin,
my hand caressing them,
and desire our eyes,
every night,
cuddle fest,
kissing your head,
laying on my chest,
Forever, you said.
then you were gone.

The Path You Desire

Mathieu Aug 2019

The Path You Desire

Pulsating, clawing, insidious, free.
Instilled in others to do great things.
The higher the mountain, they warned – “You’ll fall”
You remain at the base of the summit, small

Ready to kick off from the edge,
Realize for that, you have to climb further yet.
****..
You muttered under your breath.

So pack all those bags, with things that are light
And empty the heavies, they will not oblige.
Unlearn how to run, skip, swim, jump or fly.
Focus intently on one step at a time.

Knowing each stumble, the further you slide.
Kick that foot in as if you will die.
Forget all the voices that warned you would fall
That is, as it seems

What you want after all…

There I was, gone.

Mathieu Aug 2023

There I was, gone.

Silver bands encircle withering fingers like planets,
the perpetual orbits of my index, middle, and ring.
Gazing endlessly at the ceiling from the sunken duvet,
pondering deeply—
Am I a chain's soft whisper or fractured platter?
Porcelain once pristine,
seen but scattered, across the kitchen marble.
a beloved bowl and useful.
Born of quarry's womb, kin of the chemical elements.
One of a millionfold in earth's embrace,
hewn, shaped, smoothed, bartered,
Reduced to a single, awkward grain in the wind.

They're Never Going To Be What You Want...

Mathieu Sep 2019

They're Never Going To Be What You Want...

They're never going to be
What you want them to be,
So leave us be, because they won't ever be what you want.

Can't you hear the chours sing?
Can't you hear the melody?

They Scream...

They Scream "We're never going to be what you want us to be"
So let us be, and let me be me,
Because I'm never going to be what you want for me.
And you're never going to get what you want from me.

And they're never, ever going to be what you want..

Today.

Mathieu Apr 2021

Today.

"Give me the strength to live one day,
as if it summarized the entirety of my life".

To love, to give, to build, to be proud, to be awed, to be humbled, to be grateful, to be thrilled, to be terrified, to be courageous, to be silent, to be LOUD, to be unapologetic, to be myself.

to love, to give, to build, to be proud, to be awed, to be humbled, to be grateful, to be thrilled, to be terrified, to be courageous, to be quiet, to be LOUD, to be unapologetic, to be myself.

Today.

Mathieu Sep 2021

Today.

"Give me the strength to live one day,
as if it summarized the entirety of my life".

To love, to give, to build, to be proud, to be awed, to be humbled, to be grateful, to be thrilled, to be terrified, to be courageous, to be silent, to be LOUD, to be unapologetic, to be myself.

#today #courage #fear #terrified #humbled #myself #silent #loud

To Dream,

Mathieu Dec 2021

To Dream,

"To dream,
Is to erupt the endless roads and unlimited possibilities,
of the human soul".

#soul #possible #dream #endless #unlimited

Until the fall.

Mathieu Dec 2021

Until the fall.

Where Are You Tonight?
On The Mountain, High
Looking down upon all,
The city lights.
Are you too tired to fight,
to try once more?
Will you come home for now, and be
loved by all?

If, all the trees would bend,
carve out your path.

All the plates may break,
but not my heart.

You will be in my arms,
until the fall.

And when it's dark at night,
you'll hear my call.

#fall #love #home #night #city

Where Are You?.. I Need You...

Mathieu Jul 2021

Where Are You?.. I Need You...

Tonight is a Terrible, Silent Respite
From The Cruel, Cruel March.
The Brilliance of Sunlight's Beauty
Begins to Scar With Cracks of Dark .
The Echoes Of The Universe
Are Few And Far Apart,
And In This Of All My Treasured Moments,
I Wonder Where You Are?

The Pillars And Foundations Sometimes Fall
From So Many Things That Were Beautiful
And Tears I Weep As Light Escapes,
Kneeling Before The Fireplace,
To The Flames, Whose Soul Burns to Embrace
The Many Broken Parts Of Me,
That Can No Longer Be Replaced.

To Love Lost.
To The Friends, Now Gone.
To The Good In Me, Eroded.
And To The Man I Want To Become.
Where Are You?
I Need You.

#whereareyou #ineedyou #silent #respite #scar #moments #fireplace #universe #broken

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