by trentm32 » 9/15/2004, 4:55 pm
"lingered glances and sad eyes"
so many hearts broken,
wreckage on the way
of getting to this nowhere,
where no one wants to stay
friends before it started,
in the end it's not so sound
myself the hapless commentary,
watching the walls crash down
the secrets known by all,
but happy smiles fill the faces
lingered glances and sad eyes,
below the surface of these places
it isn't fair that pain unwarranted,
will always find the softest heart
my God I fear it's jading,
only wanting a happy part
here's a new poem I wrote a minute ago (first in a while, actually).
I put it in this thread because this one is the best to explain where the inspiration came from. My bro and the girl are breaking up, and the girl and I are still good friends, so I'm gonna have to console her wanting of my brother; myself being nuts over her. I wrote this about my view of the situation, and her.
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.
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