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  Jul 2018 sassybutsweet
Vineetha
In my small world,
within my tiny heart,
A portion controlled by friends,
I got this gem
who rules it wholly.

The day we first met,
I instantly placed the bet
to be forever in debt,
cause you never let me fret.

You & I took on this beautiful journey called ‘friendship’,
with no terms attached,
beyond promises,
left out pictures,
wrapped just in the opulence of memories.

Dear best friend,
over the years,
despite the country mile,
thin yak,
you’re with me forevermore,
appearing like a beacon,
whenever I need you the most.

There isn’t a day that goes by,
without me going agape,
asking just one question–
what did I ever do to deserve you?

I can never thank you enough
for choosing to stick with me, always,
I can never love you enough
for the way you care for me invariably,
I can never relish you enough
for the amount of thought and
the effort you put in those letters,
all I can do is to try my best
to be at least half the person you’re–
kind, comforting, calm and warm
because you’re my one and only,
for today and till the end of the time.
It's hard to say what I want to say
When the question I want you to ask
Is on the tip of my tongue
  Jul 2018 sassybutsweet
Nat Lipstadt
Prologue

casual glance at my notifications while driving even though
I’m all ready a bad bad boy, cruising at a sedate,
cruise-controlled 70 mph  vs. the bureaucrat bifocals 55,
a remnant regulation of the Eighties,
all the while humming with Gilligan
“a 3 hour tour,
2 passengers set sail that day”

then execute a four lane 180,
gotta get highway sideway grassed ,
cause i’m gassed...
by a Poem Breach

of the poems promised by me,
to write of thee,
you, my best inspiration,
the list grows longer, faster
than the hours provided

pull over fast emergency for my composure breached,
my vision wetted, my eyes hit by an unplanned unexpected,
sudden summer thunderstorm

<•>

The Poem Breach

once more into the breach thy words breeze through my chest,
like on a flamed stick, night roasting, toasting beach summer marshmallows,
that cut direct to the ineffable sadness that resides resists within,
that sticky, white mess,
a human heart melting

a thank you message that I’ve read before,
many times more than once,
how my unasked poem, a sun unique,
arrived at the
precise time and place,
to lift and even save,
how could I’ve know?

I did not know

but these messages collect on my chest,
unsought words of purple ribbon metal that make a
less burdened cowardly lion,
grown man cry,
do crazy things for it is a possible solution to his
age old quest

Why do I exist, is this my purposed plan, don’t understand, all
but the answer peaked and peaceful accepted in the breach unreasoned,
my port of entry, a gateway to the scales, a bridge it is, over a time-life river styx and unstuck, yet certainly always confused...



“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”


thank you so insufficient
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