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.

Bend Over

Bend Over and watch the seasons change
One fall swoop then a spring of pain
Eyes peer out from two leggy trunks
Fooling around in such tearful fun
Turning from pain that is seen around
Where the dark pink sky does touch the ground
I wait for the tree that will bring my doom
The darkened wood that will touch the moon
The silence in anticipation
Is somewhat of a natural interregation
A crack of dawn, a large smack is heard
as well as the sound of some distant birds
The wood has made it’s wrathful laughter
Both cheeks are red, before and after
As if a lesson on some personal sin
As if a reminder to never again
A world that’s seen between to knees
Is such a sorrowful world for me
I have seen it often as all kids should
Before you meet with discipline’s wood

this is a poem I wrote about what it would take to put the world on the right track.

One tear

By Jesse James BrooksJr (me)

One tear
For the lonely man
Asleep in his bed

One tear
For the little boy
alone in his head

One tear
For the soldier
Who found himself dead

One tear
for the whisper
No one could hear

One tear
For the new mother
So full of fear

One tear
That’s left drying
On an old woman’s face

One tear
For the crusified
Who gave us all grace

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.

Saving Face

i wear the mask that hides my face.
in all it’s glory time and grace.
I have the power to save face.
no longer, able to face this person,
struggling deep within my soul.
this mask i wear is perfect you see,
the mask is perfect, but what about me?
humanity proves the imperfections,
dark circles on a wrinkled face,
open scabs on a wounded body,
humanity makes us, but it also breaks us.
I cannot keep saving face anymore,
while the world turns into this nightmare.
action must be brought around.
screams of agony without a sound.
voices of the dead, seldom heard.
voices that have been opressed for far too long.

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