I'm Looking for Light

Save me from hope.

Hide me from the thorny words

that are born in the silence

of the lost rocks.

I lie down in solitude

to which no gate or door leads.

My yearning is a white bird

that is afraid of the sky.

Since the pain flows with the flow

of snow-white melancholy,

my soul has finally shed the weight

of the unnecessary body.

Beloved, before you die in my dream,

before the antiquated night

becomes an emerald morning,

let your heart sing me

a ballad that will invite me

to an unknown world.

You are there,

you smile, you cry, you love,

you fall asleep...

But you won't resurrect the day

when nostalgia stole you from reality.

Let me be resurrected for you just once.

Since greedy solitude becomes salvation,

we will be afraid of love.

Promise this one time

that there is no need to be afraid

of unknown hearts.

Hidden in the fifth corner,

I'm looking for light,

I'm looking for tears.

Reviews

[M. J. Smith]

Takes me back. 1987, a cold November morning... A knock sounded on my door as I was getting ready for school. A friend had walked in from the next town over. The news she brought changed my world forever. My girlfriend had killed herself the night before. For years, a complex tangle of emotions dogged me. I felt like a castaway lost at sea... This poem takes me back to those dark years.

[KWP]

This poem reminds me of all the seekers who are almost at the point of relinquishing a reality so pent up with desire and attachment to emotion. Almost there, rolling in the depths of thoughts that can either inspire or debunk the whole reason why you came. A poem which shouts 'I'm ready, but clearly, it's a farce, I still have much to learn' a poem that shows - we are all human thinkers with limits to our minds unless we sit, with ourselves, in silence, for a very long time.

Nice work - nice to meet you :D