Michael Stefan

Michael Stefan Feb 2020

The scent fills my kitchen
Powerfully of garlic and cumin
Crockpot steaming as chili heats
With the aroma of coriander
Wafting to the neighbors
As the lamb begins to broil

The kitchen is awash
As the fragrance of yeast grows
sweet bread baking in the oven
Cinnamon and nutmeg
Dance a pirouette delectably
As apple pie cools

This kitchen is alive
The delights that we shared here
We made love once
It was on a cold night after dinner
Right there on that counter
Currently occupied by flour

This kitchen has grown cold
Only salt and pepper do remain
like sentinels to lost times
The microwave dings
It's all I use since you left
TV dinner turns to ash in my mouth

One thing that is the most painful after losing someone is being reminded of them in activities that you used to love. Sometimes it's a growing feeling that slowly coalesces into something that makes you weep. Other times it hits you like a freight train out of nowhere. Sometimes we don't realize how integral to our daily lives and relationships something as simple and common as cooking can be. If you are going through this hold on strong. You'll get back to cooking soon. I hope you enjoy the poem.

#breakup #sadness #everydaylife #youwillgetthroughthis #relationships

Michael Stefan Feb 2020

I hate the monotony of the day

I stand in line with everybody else
She keeps tap tap tapping on cell phone screens
He keeps crying, bored of shopping cart seats
They won't stop coughing, hack hack hack
I feel the jungle start to beat in me
tap tap tap hack hack hack
Louder and louder the wilderness beckons
Run free in me, roar to the sky
tick tick tick tick tick ticktick
My heart beats so quickly
Her nails scrape across her makeup caked skin
scratch scratch tap tap hack scratch tap
I have thunder inside of me it wants out
I streak across clouded skies filled with lightning
Sweat slicks my palms, my chest rumbles
The jungle recedes
The wilderness quiets
The sky grows dark
And I stand there waiting in line
tap hack scratch
tick tick tick tick tick tick

Michael Stefan Feb 2020

I felt you

I couldn't help myself
Addicted to the taste you gave
The way you held my hand
Your fingers through my hair
I felt you
You felt me
You said you'd hold me
And I felt you
Drift away

Breakups can be really hard. The worst is never the yelling, or fighting, but when a person just shuts themselves off from. That feeling of hopelessness as you run your fingers along a door that is closed to you forever, and you may never understand why.

#breakup #sadness #numb #painful

Michael Stefan Feb 2020

Automaton

Mechanical and Robotic
Sentences in line of Code
Schedules and Timestamps
Clockwork and Progressing
Power down, power Up
Maintenance performed Regularly
Uploading to the Cloud
Mechanical and Idiotic

go Where You Are told
perform Your function
analyze The data
upload To The cloud
prepare To Power down
you Have Functions tomorrow
goodnight You automaton

#think #dontfollow #create #selfassessment

Michael Stefan Feb 2020

Tyrannosaurus Rex

"Lo, tremble before my might
Shatter ye, all trees blocking me
I needn't pay heed to birds of flight
Nor great beasts beneath the sea

For my wings are powerful legs
My wake the thunderous echoing
Scatter beta predators, you dregs!
As I give chase that's harrowing

Dear prey, your futile efforts fail
Beneath teeth, your meat I shall annex
I am gigantic from teeth to tail
The legend of Tyrannosaurus Rex"

The small boy snarled and sat alone, the fearful quickly exiting the sandbox

This poem was a simple rhyme scheme that was ultimately inspired by Bill Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes." I wanted to create a poem of heavy imagery that allowed us to relate to our childhood when we too attempted to conquer the sandbox with toys that we cherished. I hope you like it!

#comedy #imagery #dinosaurs #childhood

Michael Stefan Feb 2020

i am angry

why would you say those things?
why would you? don't you know the hurt?
can't you feel what i feel when i feel?
your callousness irks me
ican'tthinkstraight
why? why would you?
don't you know words have meaning and gravity?
are you so blind and deaf and dumb and stupid
to not think i'd carry this ache
didn't you take a second before flapping your big dumb mouth?
words have meaning and gravity
they bear weight and matter
they matter to me
i am angry
i am angry
i hope your feeling of triumph is worth it
i am angry
and it hurts

Michael Stefan Feb 2020

music

music is abound, it's all around, and it surrounds me
from 90's revolution, this absolution, it astounds me
heavy metal, sentimental, it does blare and it does pound me
classics of an older day, it's sweet complexity confounds me
twangy rifts, from country gifts, it's upbeat melody deftly hounds me
choir songs of the church, belting praises quite profoundly
and then the blues pick at my soul and leaving me spellbound, see?
music is abound, it does surround, is so unbound, in you and me

I just love music in all of its forms. Nothing jogs my mood in the way I want like the sound of music.

#music