Sunday, June 27, 2010

Russet Embers


I try to think of words to say,
Try to think, of thoughts to pen.
In the silence of the after-day
In the safety of my so-called den.

To feel the feelings inside me
I curl up tight within myself,
To escape the truth of reality
I hold away from all the help

The snake, it bit my shallow skin
Injecting the poison of hurt inside,
It spreads so rapidly, deep within
Spreads like a fire, burning my pride.

Burning all the emotion so deep
The ashes overtake the caves
They're hot and grey, still, in my sleep
Forming new, unknown, volcanic graves.

I see the world; from turning it stops
I see the wind freeze in its course
An autumn leaf- a mid-air corpse
Time it slows, the mind, it bores.

Now as the ink flows through the feather
And colors the processed trees
I can't help but wonder whether
Scores and scratches are all that one sees

The words are missing, the mind is blank
The room is a silence, to nature torn
Yet, noises prevail, machines to thank
The thought process, now overgrown.

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