Sunday, May 15, 2011

Onward, Onward

Poem-a-day Challenge, Day One!
 
 
Onward, Onward

you set out to
far away
            away
a-ways from the
world
your world, stepping
gingerly as not
to crack the
sandy shore line

there wasn’t a
purpose
just walking
drifting like a
cloud being nudged
by the translucent
soul of the wind
onward
onward

you were see-through
too
the only way you
stayed connected to the world
was closing your eyes
tight, clamped, shut

walking though water—
a cool puddle ocean
without fish—you
neglected to stumble
but kept going
      keep breathing, you
let the water burn
within to tether yourself
to this world

the earth moved under
you, the dirt stroked
between your toes,
cool and dark
against your white-hot
soul as you
left nowhere land
      no one land

wind pushed you like
a kite but each gust
blew through your lost-self
as it would between
each vapor of a cloud
you almost evaporated

into a wood you
tripped care-freely alone
letting the sound of
silence interrupt your
never ending soliloquy
of fatalistic solitude

the wind kept you
barreling onward
                onward
but each leaf rustled
within each tree, asking
whether or not you missed
your world

you did dearly,
desperately, and every
painstaking tear that fell
into the ever moving wind
sang for your heart in
the words only rustling
green leaves could understand
but still
onward
onward

the sun hurt your
fragile shell
white shell
lonely shell
you floated but
wished the wind could
carry you faster as
a torrential downpour of emotion
cascaded from your tightly
closed eyes

waiting in the moonlight
you sat, desperate for
relief from the emptiness of
all
you and the moon let
tears escape together,
he—stars,
you—water, he was
missing the sun

you whispered your soul to
him, let it float away from
you to forget your existence
as to explained that you would
go home soon
and that you only missed
being missed
onward
onward
 
~Olivia :)

3 comments:

  1. I absolutely adore this! Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!

    Lines I love:

    "stepping
    gingerly as not
    to crack the
    sandy shore line

    the only way you
    stayed connected to the world
    was closing your eyes
    tight, clamped, shut

    as you
    left nowhere land
    no one land

    you almost evaporated

    letting the sound of
    silence interrupt your
    never ending soliloquy
    of fatalistic solitude

    and that you only missed
    being missed
    onward
    onward"

    Absolutely amazing, and the last line is so poignant :)

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  2. UGH YOU KILL ME!!! With beauty, of course.
    Your poems always make me wander into dreams and other worlds and characters with so much depth (does that make sense?)
    The way you put words together and make them flow is amazing! Great work!

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  3. Your poetry makes me cry--the beauty of your words sometimes hurts one's soul. You are a poet my dear child.

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