A Standing Pool of Wasted Wishes

 

Traveling the speed of dreams

I take a left and end up head first

into a puddle, a standing pool

of wasted wishes

and the damn fish aren’t biting.

 

I built my rod from the spine

of every love lost while standing up

for love itself but getting shot down

every damn time and you’d think

I would give up trying

but I’m dying to find out

if there’s more because

there has to be more than this.

 

Hook, line and sinker have been cast

but all I’m catching is

a hidden past that haunts me

like cars in a lake

reported missing years ago.

 

Everytime I think I’ve got something

I reel in just a feeling,

a fleeting glimpse of

what I once felt before and

let slip through my hands

and shatter on the floor

into a million scattered pieces

comprising only one thought.

 

And when the day is done

I’ll pack up my things and go home,

back inside where I

count my losses from casting into

a sea of uncertainty

yet when I lay my head down

I still can’t sleep.

 

Reviews

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I love THIS, and not just because I suck at fishing ....

Painting pictures with your words are certainly your forte...I love what your "rod" is made of...that IS the stuff of dreams...the untangible made symbolic...

This is all too familiar... so simple, yet profound...
"And when the day is doneI'll pack up my things and go home,back inside where Icount my losses from casting intoa sea of uncertaintyyet when I lay my head downI still can't sleep. "

....this is me writing a review @ midnight..."since I still cant sleep"...

[Hedra Helix]

Traveling the speed of dreamsI take a left and end up head firstinto a puddle, a standing poolof wasted wishesand the damn fish aren't biting.
daaamn;)...hah, I know these reviews are getting suckier. Im just becoming happier and thus less wordy.
great beginning on this one.

[xlynne]

oh thats so sad.
i love when you said: Hook, line and sinker have been cast
but all I'm catching isa hidden past that haunts me
like cars in a lake
reported missing years ago
i know how that can be, it can be so very discontenting.