Six Feet Under.

Six Feet Under.

A poem by Kim Mathews.

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I search through my mind,
looking through old files and drawers,
trying to remember what it was
like.

Frantically I look,
knowing the memories are fading
and yet unable to stop Time’s
cleaning.

My tears hit the page,
smudging the thoughts wrote in my mind,
blurring the vague shadow of what I
had.

……
Yet I know when I find it,
it won’t matter:
because the closest I’ll come
to a hug from my father
is only six feet.

A Walk To Remember

It was a Friday night, and I took a long walk around.
Just to ease my mind which stress seems to surround.
It felt so great, the warm breeze hit my face.
As I glanced at the constellations shining from the east.
So I step forward, and continue to reminisce
Moving silently, to what Atmosphere acknowledges.
And the moon moves an sadly grins from the view.
As a young kid walks off the emotions he once knew.
A cow moo’s, I see it standing in the dark.
Another sleepless soul, looks like were in the same park.
I glance up, just in time to see a comet.
Close my eyes and make a wish, maybe I can stop it.
And pocket it, cause the luck it holds I need.
I’m tired of being out of money for this toll of dreams.
I look away, towards the long road ahead of me.
Push the memories from my view, and walk into another scene.

Now a new scene, I see this young girl of fifteen.
Staring in the mirror as a tear reflects from a dream.
All she wanted was to be a witness of compassion.
Yet instead she became a witness of verbalized aggression.
Now she stepped forward, and crossed the lines into depression.
Eye’s pierced with the tears of absolute neglection.
Mentally altered, this girl took thee abuse.
Later to encrypt her wrists with a knife she shouldn’t use.
Another fight, so she turns to a heaven’s view.
Cries and she prays to a God she never really knew.
Never understanding why life takes it’s sways.
While she sees a loving family when here life turns to gray.
So she sneaks out, to walk off all her memories.
Walks down a boulevard, yet it’s like a country street.
Kicks a stone in the light shining from the moon.
As I watch in the distance as she walks outta view.

Love lost, is different then what it seems.
You just gotta acknowledge all your opportunities.
Walking in one’s shoes is thee only way to see.
So you gotta stay open so everyone believes.

Now a Veteran, straight outta World War Two.
Stares out the window, with his eyes so blue.
Remebering the times as a strong young chap.
Now he sit’s in his wheelchair, he’s now handicap.
Cause he can not forget all the blood that was shed.
Young growing boys live’s end before it begins.
Haunted by the image, it now pillages his brain.
Can barley even speak, without hearing bullets ring.
He dreams of, taking back what he’d seen.
A young Jewish boy left slaughtered by his feet.
Wondering, what kind of human can achieve.
Such a gruesome status, and still be an elite.
It penetrates his head, even decades after war.
But still he dreams nightmares of both blood and gore.
He closes his eyes, and he prays for an escape.
From this terror that has haunted him through the life he’s made.

The Weight of Words

The weight of words
Is on my shoulder
Aspiring to fly away
In streams of poetic justice.
How do I accurately convey
What it is I need to say?
There is no right or wrong in this strange
World of rhyme and alliteration.
A verb, a noun, a metaphor
All the memories of years before.
Sight, sound, touch, taste
All clamoring to come forth
With vivid haste.
The weight of words is a burden to my soul
For words are the source of inner control.
My heart wells up inside
At the flow of words
Desiring to be heard.

Life, Death, Resurrection

Jesus, Immanuel

Bright morning star,

Whose birth drew wise men

To visit from afar.

They brought gifts of

Frankincense, myrrh, and gold,

“Bring news of his whereabouts.”

By Herod they were told.

After they worshiped and

Honored the true King, (more…)

Only Time Will Tell

Twilight settled over the cobble-stone street
As two lovers at Maraise’ café dared meet,
She performed a curtsey, in her coral blue day-dress
He a sweeping bow attired in his finest no less.
The crystal chandelier emitted a soft amber glow
Candles burned in wall sconces and violins played low,
She fanned her face demurely, daring to meet his eyes
He smiled at her wanly, a wolf in sheep’s disguise.
The waiter produced two menus featuring the ‘piece de resistance’
Which was comprised of nothing short of the finest sustenance,
Beyond the window to the right a moonlit river flowed where through
Silken scallop-edged draperies, the strands of time were slowed. (more…)

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