"grantide" poems
We as a culture/society/civilization. We **** and plunder the earth. We take advantage of her destroying her, and her natural resources. Caring not for future generations to come. Only thinking of the here and now, are we really so selfish! Does that really require questioning when all along the answer is known. We use her for our own gain, tearing into her rich dark flesh. Reaping the benefits of her bountiful splendor. Never fully replenishing that which we steal away, and she in all her glory and unyielding strength selflessly cooperates. Bending but never breaking to our will. We pollute her, poisoning her rivers, her oceans, her lakes, her streams, her ponds and create stagnant pools of filth. Our sole contribution to the world is, nay, will be the ruin of us all. All the while, whilst we destroy her so seemingly infinite beauty she rewards us. With the edible fruition of her labor and clear, clean liquid from her ***** to quench our ever increasing thirst. And in return, to give thanks, to praise her we bury decay in her fertile womb. Only to later perhaps even decades so wonder even (perplex/ purport) as to why she is baron and cold. Buried under mounds of suffocating concrete we take her for grantide. If ever she breathes a complaint we point the finger elsewhere. Never pausing to reflect on self and come to the realization of what we are doing to her to ourselves, to the generations yet to come to our lineage to our desendants, to our very lively hood. The question that really needs to be asked here is when did we begin to pride ourselves over that which has existed longer than we could ever fully begin to fathom. That thrived despite our lack of existence and hopefully will again far after we have perished and all but ceased to have existed at all.
Sep 10, 2014
Sep 10, 2014 at 8:31 AM UTC
Kisses that fumble over lips
First loves embrace
Sweaty palms
Weak knees
Butterflies
Sober drunk
Sunrises will never compare
The moon would never be enough
The stars will never shine so bright as your eyes
They light up when they look into mine
I miss the hue
I miss the way I felt in your arms
I miss everything about you
Even the things I couldn't stand
I took our time together for grantide
I thought we had time
I fell when I wasn't looking
So caught up in things that didn't matter
I made you think you didn't matter
I recall fondly our first date
We danced as water cascaded around us
Dancing with us
You told me you couldn't figure me out
I don't even know who I am some days
I wanted you to figure me out
I wanted to be with you
I just forgot how to be myself
Somewhere along the way I lost myself
You found me
You lie to me so convincingly
I've never believed anyone when they told me I was beautiful
Until those words graced your lips
I tremble when your hands touch me
I breathe all of you in
You're leaving to start your life
I wish I could have gotten to know you better
But I chose to betray what we had
I ******* up
I am not so proud that I cannot admit it
I did this
I ****** this beautiful, amazing "magical" thing we had up
And for what?
He was never worth losing you
Sep 10, 2014
Sep 10, 2014 at 7:52 AM UTC