Imagine

Imagine

A Poem by Luther

I can imagine her laid out in a car park, hair untied and a whiskey scented ribbon clutched in her hand. I can imagine that as it changes from day to night, from sun to moon, she won’t even flinch. I can imagine a short spell of sprinkled rain and again, no flinch. I can imagine her lighting cigarettes off other cigarettes and thinking how each cigarette is a grain of sand, falling through the cylinder of her existence. I can see her smiling at this thought.


I can imagine her at night on the cement steps of six storey car parks, listening to etiquette through a stolen mobile phone. I imagine her knowing the lines to every obscure verse. I imagine her singing each word in her mouth. Loud enough for only her to hear.


“Some things are best left unsaid”


I imagine her at a party, locked inside a friends room. She’d be alone. She’d be stoned. There’d be only the laptop light, a cool blue glow. She’d be holding a pen and it would be writing.


I imagine her muting sound each time she heard a footstep.


I imagine her to wear a t-shirt in winter. She’d like to feel the snowflakes pinch her skin.


I imagine her writing letters to dead men. Dead men she never knew.


I imagine her in a park. She feeds the ducks. She speaks to tramps. These are the only people who can hear her with no consequence.


She’ll pay them to listen.


They’d listen for free.

© 2010 Luther


My Review

Would you like to review this Poem?
Login | Register




Reviews

what do you mean???? "why the mysterious '...' ?" doesn't make sense. what are you referring to?

Posted 14 Years Ago


why the mysterious '...' ?

Posted 14 Years Ago


it's about a girl who is happiest as an outsider, without having to be phoney and false...

Posted 14 Years Ago


thats really sweet. a real kinda of melancholy. i like how she has this sad, lonely existance and the reader pities her, but she doesn't mind, she seems to almost like it? nice lonely, wintery kind of imagery xx

Posted 14 Years Ago



Share This
Email
Facebook
Twitter
Request Read Request
Add to Library My Library
Subscribe Subscribe


Stats

308 Views
4 Reviews
Added on May 19, 2010
Last Updated on May 19, 2010

Author

Luther
Luther

LONDON, United Kingdom



Writing
City of God City of God

A Stage Play by Luther