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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#989950 added May 29, 2023 at 12:55pm
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An Open Book
An Open Book

pages now yellow
hide dog-eared entries
burdened by the weight of time...


i left my diary open
but she did not pry to read.

entries that could instruct
an indifferent heart,
that could inform a mind ready
to see inside this shell,
could witness all the revelations
i did not drop in conversation.

i open this book wide
and do not hide anymore.
she is nowhere seen,
travels further from purview.
hope that I'll connect
with that other worldly soul someday.

still waiting,
i'm growing ancient
with a tome tucked with pages,
forgotten notes like wallpaper
coverings for windows of dreams --
of what I once was, now
shrinking in a dusty village.

a man too small
to lift his own book
does not know where
the story of dreams begins,
how the tales unfold
because every ending: unfathomable.

still dreaming in dark
while Norah sings discontent,
sends regrets from shores bracing horizons
of potentiality, but
not to be our reality.

all quills run dry
of the heart's ink.


8.5.20/8.28.20
37 lines, freeverse

I'm in here, but it will take strong, electric paddles to bring me back to life.

per the prompt: book
An Open Book

Yellowed pages hid dog-eared entries on a dust-shelf, since lapses in their linear time. His diary could lay open and Ramona wouldn't stop to peruse. Brian's entries could instruct an indifferent heart. Penned words he feared to drop in conversation awoke again. He thought the quill had run dry of the heart's ink.

5.29.23

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