The Child.
By Exodus
I watch the window
As it slowly breaks
Disintegrating
Into the thin air
The trees hover over
The path
They are so old
So wise
I sit against your gravestone
I ask of you.
Give me your sadness
Bleed through me
I notice the trees have turned
Black
Against the dark blue sky
The 6th hour of the daylight
Now fades into its darker side
No one understands my sadness
And why I lack the things I do
A boy enters my dark realm
He stares, and turns away
Unlike my dreams
He is real to touch
They laugh and sing
And join the street
With a happy skip
Youth
Something so good
Never lasts
I see it leaving my face
The gleam, gone from my eyes
I am no longer the bright
Light
I was 5 years ago
And even then
What sort of child
Thinks with a mind
Wiser
And much older
Than their kind
The words refuse to complete me
So I wait until they respond
With pen and paper
Communication
There’s a wall
I hide behind
I seem a mystery
But that
Is up to you
To decide.
Comments on "The Child."
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On Friday, July 14, 2017, worm
(1149) wrote:
a good piece! Nice... ~worm~
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On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, Solace
(1065) wrote:
Ok if i were forced into choosing my favorite poem of yours its this... Definately... I found so much of myself in it that i was amazed and enthralled... i'd comment more but i have to read it more
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On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, Ideas
(50) wrote:
All I can say is I loved it.
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On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, stormtalk
(727) wrote:
One of my favorites of yours in a while... I love the murky, shadowy surrealism of it. The impish tone of the end is good, too. I can't think of anything to suggest to make it better...
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A former member wrote:
o-mi-goodness...this is...amazing, extremely profound, i can't even believe how much i loved this, really really wonderful.