The Benefits of The Middle of Nowhere

this poem I wrote on the way back from some fireworks in the middle of nowhere lol

I know nothing towns

My father

Grew up in a nothing town

With one little bar

A store (if you could call it that)

A bunch of crack head houses

                And a train

 

I will tell you right now

I never really lived there

But I have spent a good deal of

Childhood summers there

And sometimes

Even though I never did

 

I feel like I grew up there

And that dusty bug ridden air

Is in my bones

 

There really are not many benefits

To small towns

Or the middle of nowhere

I can only think of two

 

One of them is definitely the space

For your childhood imagination to

Roam

 

That town has one road

And since then I have vowed

I will

Never

                NEVER

Live in a town with only one road

Too much traffic coming and going

(or so that’s what I said)

 

But that desert land that lacked

Something in the way of

Roads

Housed the adventures of an empty

Headed dream studded, child

Which is just maybe, good enough

At least for a nothing town

 

Another benefit of the middle of nowhere

I have stumbled across

After years of not so much as living in one

Is the stars

 

All those stars in that sky

Put love struck gazes back in there place

And you can say it over and over

Again

But nothing will ever

Put those starry skies

           To shame

 

I certainly don’t enjoy the bugs

I find crawling up my legs every time

I’m in one of those

Nowhere’s

 

But the other animals aren’t so bad

Sometimes

Maybe

Just maybe

They can remind you of innocence,

And prove the world is

 

Still

       Beautiful

 

But I guess even so

I never want to live in the middle

                                Of nowhere

 

Author's Note

everything here is intentional.

Reviews

[17thWhitePrince]

A most beautiful poem :D

"All those stars in that sky
Put love struck gazes back in there place
And you can say it over and over
Again
But nothing will ever
Put those starry skies
To shame"

The thoughts that race through my mind as I think of such nothing towns :P

[kera moondust]

lol any man that says a womans gaze puts starry skies to shame has obviously never looked at the sky in a small town where you can see the outline of the milkyway with your naked eye.

[17thWhitePrince]

Wow true =D