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I remain a newborn knight
And yet have not acquired
The armor of my core
The thorns of these sweet roses
How shall I endure such sores?

The fragrance, always so familiar
Still playing with the ends of these strange curly vines
I keep the rose waiting
For I, too, am waiting
Waiting for my armor to grow and shine

Maybe these fragrant petals won’t be mine
I first must learn to love my castle
And I know
Armorless behind the crumbled walls
We will both hurt
I see black petals on the floor
I’m unprotected
Alas, a waning core
Bittersweet World of Uncertain Hearts
John Archievald Gotera © 2014 - 2015
Big eyes drawn above
Aurora fields of sky earth
Reeled great imaginations
A katauta poem inspired by nature.

John Archievald Gotera © 2015
Another night has breezed me by
Too much sleep has gone in haste
Somnolence is what makes me drink coffee sometimes
Oh oh oh,
Instead, take me where the monsters once lurked
In between the crevices of my old crypt that remains inert
I want to take a peek of the catacombs
Where I sometimes visit in my sleep

Oh ** **,
Where's that sense of humor I once had?
Couldn't speak now
With the tongue I once had
I'm enshrouded in nostalgia
With silly monsters caught in between
Stuck in my daydreams
I can't help but imagine the past

Oh oh oh,
That was my wonderful life
Little kids on the pave
Laughing and falling on their knees
And flippant little fingers making a scene
If I could only spring back
To the time when my essence was clean
Back to the home where I pestered the words
"Please, please, please"
To the point of my content, when I could no longer protest
When I finally drowned asleep in the summer breeze

Cheers to my childhood days
And to the housebound trance of old school lullabies
Where my loving family of special hearts
Defended the tears I cried
Oh, oh, oh
Provoked by silly monsters I waved goodbye
Never did I think
I would miss so very much
Those glorious days of when my silly monsters
Brought mischief and thrived
The monsters in our closets, monsters underneath our beds... I'm sure many of us can relate. :)

John Archievald Gotera © 2012 - 2015
  Oct 2015 John Archievald Gotera
Kush
A cozy blanket of numbness is what I seek
Far away from people and their faux complexities
Their insistence on infecting you with vile opinions
I need to distance myself away from the poison that is humanity
To have the ability of seeing their petty emotions
Through a pair of binoculars
I tire from episodes consisting of synaptic overloads
Decompress, readdress, and be free of stress
I desire the chance to finally say that
I just don't give a ****!
I keep looking at myself
And it’s so hard to see who I am
Who will I be?
All I know is that I don't know me
Nobody knows me
Let alone me
What have I become to be?

My future dreams are shrouded in mystery
They come and go
Day by day, they run and blow
I am afraid of the days ahead of me
I don't see any future for me
I have been searching around
For the image that best fits me
Alas, nothing it seems
I'm a chameleon
Living in a dream with transient dreams

I've dreamt too much, yet lost too much
I know I am awake, but my mind is at stake
My focus is fading
Chaotically beyond my reach

My mind seems lost
And my body feels without a surface
Floating around in distant space
As I float
Waiting hopelessly for nothing
Colorless and empty without a face
There's nothing worst than feeling lost in life on so many levels. It's always important to remember that it takes time to discover our true selves and that there's no shame in feeling lost from time to time.

This poem can be found in my poetry compilation, The Home of Carmine Red.

The Home of Carmine Red © 2013 - 2015
John Archievald Gotera

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/282380
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