Sunday, July 3, 2016

squinting in the sunlight


abandoned at the bottom of the lake where i was born

i stayed there in the sunless silt in love with the forlorn

but lately as i linger in the layers of repress

i long to see the sunshine and just leave behind this mess

 

i know that i can’t surface if i stay within this art

happier me i cannot be if i do not depart

too many thoughts of suicide have taken center stage

i want to have a different thought upon a different page

 

nihilist brow forgive me now but i am incomplete

the darkness dancing in my mind has ushered in defeat

the drugs and drink are on the brink of taking my last breath

till every thought i ever think is only about death

 

the comfort comes upon my tongue by tasting something sweet

i want to harvest sugarcanes instead of all this wheat

and so today i have to say amid all of this rhyme

i have to find a better way than my just doing time

and so the second hand must move towards what i do not know

but it is time to change the rhyme and finally let it go

 

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