A Poem for a Friend | Chloe Earl
Your suffering lingers
thoughts haunting your mind
I would take them as my own
if only I could.
For now I’ll make you laugh,
put your giggles in a bottle
and save them for another day
when you need them.
Your suffering lingers
thoughts haunting your mind
I would take them as my own
if only I could.
For now I’ll make you laugh,
put your giggles in a bottle
and save them for another day
when you need them.
To them in courtesy they
told they exchanged niceties
without withdrawing wide
friendly gestures people
expected in all genuine acts
of announced closenesses,
blunders of wayward words
to historical animosities had
turned frustrating people,
their futures, like their ugly
pasts, were to be mortgaged
to bellicosity and bestiality
the brute world was best
to exemplify in its wild ways
and vengeful madness and
mean meaningless poses,
of apt crooked criminalities
captioning them in proverbs
of peace and prayers for the
harmony and progress of
all whose fortunes are tied
to the mindsets of people
who are yet to learn hard
lessons in humanity and its
rights to dream of majestic
millennia of amity and easy
credulity, not corruptible,
in ways even unthinkable.
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deliberately leaving
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Forever and ever and ever
Destroying
Dragging this down
Like a living zombie
Fear, fear
Uncertain, waiting
Hoping for failure
Trying with no success
Hating the beauty
Of what should be
Despised, confused
Hating hating
Nonetheless thinking wishfully
The result is… nothing
Nothing, nothing,
No result, no meaning
Death.
People in all professions look for it
and work to get it and, as they mature in years,
they come to understand it
is some very strange bird to
catch and call their own, for
they see in its winged flight
it like the summer desert’s
mirage of hope run apace,
leaving the person seeking
for it, still trying and finding
to utter surprise more is to
be put in for more of what,
in terms of perfection, the
wide world outside there
calls efficiency, and working
harder and with vigour, and
focus on giving more than
that demanded or desired
till the spirit goes and the
stamina, strength, patience
to pursue matters draw to
an abrupt halt and, out of the
same stage of garlanding
and awards and certificates
and clappings and loud
applause there the hero,
of decades of achievement
with bent head and lowered
looks in heaviness of heart,
bows out when others with
the baton to prove their
mettle with lust for the lost
lustre, go running the relay
race of the chimera of skill
and competence that the
broad competitive world
of work with pride calls
efficiency of the mighty
and not the frail.
I look deeply into the shadow
That veils him from his
Obsession to obscure
Through metaphor
His vision is twenty twenty
His pupils speak in braille
He gives me a silhouette
I give him blank paper
The pen will find
Its way home.
All I wanted was to be in your heart,
And our love to never part….
No other woman loves
Me as you truly do,
Your my perfect angel in Life….
My soulmate it’s truly you….
Your bright eyes
So beautiful
Gazing into them
I see our forever and after….
So take my hands
And Remember
Our love will last forever….