Writings - Poetry - 2006

Catastrophic slip
I lost to the inner apocalypse
Couldn't keep the world on my shoulders
So I let it fall
Dropped the world and lost it all
I guess atlas would be jealous
I don't have to hold it anymore
But I would have
Held on
Had I
Been strong
So forgive me this human failure
I am mortal after all.
So I hope
So I've thought
But it wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong

Tell me why I put the weight upon me
What was the significance in the struggling?
Led me to indifference and defeat
In-between the perilous wrongs for righting
It was all so…
So enlightening
Didn't even know
I was falling
And with me all the world came crashing
When I shattered like glass on the floor

I can't wait to assemble the pieces
To cut my fingers on the serrated edge
Lets me know I'm still living
To put it all together again
Into the conundrum puzzle box
But I always thought the world was round
Yet it seems more like it's a rubix cube now
And I have found I like twisting it
So I twist the world
And when it's dropped
Tornado's swirl

Take me higher away into that mighty gale
I'm so tired of fighting the future
In the futile clash of tooth and nail
Scraping by on the crumbs of life
I wish it away
To trade for the rife
I will wish for what I wish
I'll turn the astringent fruit ripe.