No Longer Fit to Drink From My Cup

Sometimes thoughts of my own
seem able to imprison my words,
break them in half and try and become
someone’s fantasies.
They cast sleeping inspiration upon my morning
with a murmur falling by the side
of my heart’s mysteries.

All of my problems glance easily
off different sides of stones
placed in the dust
I tend to keep beneath my feet.
My eyes see them come undone
until they are no longer fit
to sail with me
or drink from my cup
where all beauty is sweet.

Shamed by care Fear smiles and flutters
behind every forceful word heard
through the translucency it retains.
All of my confidence that has separated
then faces itself to meditate
on all that is brightly lit,
here to remain.

The ground does not pass judgment
same as a soldier leaps to exhibit nobleness
throughout this hemisphere
full of thinking men.
However, greed can leave you
half-empty and ill prepared
for thoughts that will imprison
your words like the wind.

I make headway over the side of dominion
ruling the air of darkness
where fairness becomes one
among the living.
I find I am passing over
what has become sand
within a waterfall,
falling from on high,
due to my misgivings.

I am aware that beneath the taste of a last appearance
the deepest thoughts
can cover those minutes we use.
However, little do we see,
time and time again,
sometimes we tear the best there is
within a man, right in two.

Author's Note

*Artist JiaLu

Reviews

[KAREN]

Beautifully written and composed with breathtaking wording.
100/100

[Cassie Fraga]

gooooood god NEVA!!! this is AMAZING!!! I love the spirit in this piece so thought provoking as the last line caps it!!! I love your word play it is so captivating and draws a person in right from the start!! GREAT WRITE!!!

[An owl on the moon]

You journey us deep into your psyche... these thoughts and feelings of the world so starkly expressed... Your final lines are hauntingly profound.

[EMF]

Chuff me. I know it's predictable to say that you're damn good. That you encapsulate emotions and themes in a wonderful lyricism. All of that. So I won't. Just say that every poem you have ever written has moved me. As with this. Simple

[SoulCrusader (Yas)]

A splendid write...
totally dig your writings :)

[Kenneth The Poet]

Right in two indeed. Fluid writing, stirring emotion.

[Two Hearted Wolf]

"No longer fit to drink from my cup". A very rich and passionate poem.