Learning To Express Myself
Blinkers and blinders
Forget where my place is.
Stumble off course,
And my Brother retraces.
Too far ahead,
Wind slows my paces.
So easy to give up
The race would then mean less.
My actions condemn
All the efforts of men
Until I am shoulder to shoulder again.
Would be a shame if it rained today.
I would have to watch flowers and trees
Cry rivers away from me.
Fortunately, I’m resilient
And expected this anyway.
But I wouldn’t wish it on you.
I didn’t wish it for you.
So I guess for the moment,
It’s just you and me.
Drying off the canopy,
And seeing what’s underneath.
I think we’re a lot stronger
than we were led to believe.
Got lost in the forrest
Hiding wet eyes from trees.
Forgive me if I lost you,
taking for granted you would find me.
“Sorry, no change” he impatiently moans.
Head down past the beggars,
While crossing his fingers
In pockets once lined with the dust from his bones.
Stressed about how he will look walking by.
Is humanity’s sin
Letting Apathy in?
Who should be judged if the beggars should die?
Then stride through existence!
The back of your insects
Stretch out with persistance
The world you know.
But shame, it’s a desert!
Be small in your present,
And be sure to assess
Where you wanted to go.
For now I am stronger
due to your resistance.
Destruction no longer
Will stop me to grow.
I lay with rivers,
Breathing with crickets,
Grounded by image
Of comforting sky.
Sheltered by Forest,
My Brothers of Fishes
and Sister of Flowers
that dance where I lie.
akennific 