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So now she stands a beauty, Average in stature Yet extraordinary in strength To find Within the pores of the fragile bones Of a sweet youth The armour, the wisdom, The experience, the might, The hurt, the resilience Of a Spartan soldier She stands to support The line she comprises And will fall down with valor With a sword towards the sky Hazel is the eye Through which she used to Squint to find An answer to the unkind Cards shuffled and dealt Out to her one at time Toy with me some more Mess with my mind Shake the ground on which I stand And watch my eyes go blind Tear the petals one by one, Ruin the beauty that once stood Drive me, drive me back, Watch me, watch me cry, I knew the rose would blacken I am taking back what’s mine For two whole years An empty vase Sat impassive, Barren of dreams And stripped of passion Naked was my body, Open were the wounds, Fresh was the **** Slowly healing were tattoos Depicting a devastating tale of a mother, A mother who couldn’t find reason, Simply struggled for the why Of a life she had constructed over decades Through a brutal, shattered mind Watch me laugh And flash my face up to the light Of a sweltering day, Beads of sweat dot my nose I worry not, just wipe them away Yet the tears are what I can’t seem to simply rid myself of The air is cold, They freeze and thaw Mamma listen, I’m in love I’m perched on the edge Of something finite, One wrong move and I can’t defy The lines traced on the way down, No ropes or swinging vines I contemplated moving though, Maybe I could find you But I remain standing in this very spot, I couldn’t jump Because this spot is all knew I take the all of what this is For everything it’s worth Because I know the answers To what now means I don’t know where you are I’d very much be pleased to venture But leave now and I know I’d be mistaken I’ve got a lot to do, I may not know it all But the assignment must be complete Before I take the fall For now I live For now I cry For now I breathe And fear and die For now I sleep With pictures of you And I always awake with them too For now the cerulean dreams Are posted upon walls, Like graffiti faded in a day And I still sit and wonder Why you got away.
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Sep 4, 2011
Sep 4, 2011 at 1:42 AM UTC
For Now I Live
So now she stands a beauty, Average in stature Yet extraordinary in strength To find Within the pores of the fragile bones Of a sweet youth The armour, the wisdom, The experience, the might, The hurt, the resilience Of a Spartan soldier She stands to support The line she comprises And will fall down with valor With a sword towards the sky Hazel is the eye Through which she used to Squint to find An answer to the unkind Cards shuffled and dealt Out to her one at time Toy with me some more Mess with my mind Shake the ground on which I stand And watch my eyes go blind Tear the petals one by one, Ruin the beauty that once stood Drive me, drive me back, Watch me, watch me cry, I knew the rose would blacken I am taking back what’s mine For two whole years An empty vase Sat impassive, Barren of dreams And stripped of passion Naked was my body, Open were the wounds, Fresh was the **** Slowly healing were tattoos Depicting a devastating tale of a mother, A mother who couldn’t find reason, Simply struggled for the why Of a life she had constructed over decades Through a brutal, shattered mind Watch me laugh And flash my face up to the light Of a sweltering day, Beads of sweat dot my nose I worry not, just wipe them away Yet the tears are what I can’t seem to simply rid myself of The air is cold, They freeze and thaw Mamma listen, I’m in love I’m perched on the edge Of something finite, One wrong move and I can’t defy The lines traced on the way down, No ropes or swinging vines I contemplated moving though, Maybe I could find you But I remain standing in this very spot, I couldn’t jump Because this spot is all knew I take the all of what this is For everything it’s worth Because I know the answers To what now means I don’t know where you are I’d very much be pleased to venture But leave now and I know I’d be mistaken I’ve got a lot to do, I may not know it all But the assignment must be complete Before I take the fall For now I live For now I cry For now I breathe And fear and die For now I sleep With pictures of you And I always awake with them too For now the cerulean dreams Are posted upon walls, Like graffiti faded in a day And I still sit and wonder Why you got away.
mackenzie-johnson
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Sep 4, 2011
Sep 4, 2011 at 1:42 AM UTC
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