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The Snow cracked under my cars weight
As I pulled in front of the house. I sat motionless … hard to rouse As I sat thinking in debate Of what transpired with my fate- My fate dressed for misfortune’s date. No not great- a fate that had died In debate of the reasons why. Sitting this side of the good-bye Where pain and confusion collide And where honesty was denied, The place in which I sat to hide. In the dusk, I heard geese in flight Heading toward the field nearby. A late winter and soon they fly But for now they feed for the night And will leave with the morning light, The season over like the plight. The scents of spring blew in the air. The snow would soon melt in the yard; And I sat still wounded and scarred On my small porch above the square. Sitting and thinking as I stare Into nothing that I’m aware. The honk I heard was not a car But the call of returning geese. Thinking perhaps, they would bring peace, Carrying it with them from afar. I sat wondering where they are, Those that carved the non-healing scar. The spring passed in tortuous flash-- Strange- slow but fast, it didn’t last. Now the snow moves onto the vast Sheets of green covered in white rash And I’m reminded of the flash That turned man, cinder, into ash. And as I think, I hear the sound Of The departing geese- the calls, The honks that formed my prison walls- Walls guarded by those southern bound Another season- no rebound, Confused … confused, trapped in confound. The geese in season come and go And they scratch their time in my mind, On the walls that I hide behind, Walls that are buried under snow. I think and think, wanting to know- Why in snow does the moss grow? The lifting frost turns moss to mold And in the mold grows and old tree Fertilized by geese and by me. And on the tree grow leaves of gold Out of my reach- never to hold, they turn hot summer days to cold. To take flight- for I am a goose, The fool now bound without his wings Thinking of golden leaves and things. The things that will never let loose Of my life without the excuse To remove my head from its noose. Hanging in the tree of gold leaf, Tied to the branch where the geese fly, And they glance at me- hear my cry. I hang from the prison of grief Grief I have over disbelief Of the seasons without relief. From north to south, they fly the lane And pass me by in the season- In my season without reason, Back and forth, they fly through the rain While the old tree holds me by chain Woven of golden leaf and pain.
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