Voice recorder

last words

I found a voice recorder while climbing over rocks
Dented and scratched I wonder if it talks
Tiny little buttons which one will it be
When I tried the power one It said these things to me
"This is not your voice recorder you should let me go
Climb to the highest rock aim for the sea and throw"
I found a voice recorder while climbing over rocks
Put it in my pocket now It's muffled when It talks
I climb to the highest one and look down at the sea
I catch my breath... I look at the last there is of me
I turn around to go down and hear these words
This is not your voice recorder you should let me go
Climb to the highest rock aim for the sea and throw
I set it down where It was found and turned it off...

Author's Note

Why do you think this person is on the rocks in the first place?

Reviews

[KAREN]

Depression is why he's on the rocks! Poem left you wondering if he follow the voice and jumped! Excellent write!

[HoorayForUnderdog]

I enjoyed your clever poem, Rossen. I imagine a person who is troubled and who is contemplating a jump from those high cliffs -- the voice recorder, the person's inner voice, is coaxing the person to end it all -- glad the person muffled the voice recorder and left the negativity behind!

editing note: "wile" should be "while"

[Arabdha]

its very entertaining..i read it twice..there is so much that underlies the obvious in this poem..! again another addition to my library..thank you for sharing :)

[Sydney Evans]

I love this.
It really talks too you how you wrote it as if you voice recorder is telling me to put it down.

We all sometimes need another voice.

Thank you for this write, I really enjoyed it. (:

[Linear]

Sometimes that voice comes from inside, but often not, sometimes it's all around us, or simply spinning inside our head, and at times we may listen or just go ahead, and then we may be dead. Good poem makes one think :) thats a good thing

[Gomer LePoet]

hey this was so simple and so cute and so many hidden meanings. I like it.

[Lilly Negoi]

sometimes we need another voice to make us listen to the voice inside us. there could be symbols here, like "this is not your voice recorder" meaning actually "this is not your time", but again, there can be none, and the poem could be taken just as it is. maybe the person was climbing with suicidal thoughts, or maybe the person was climbing just for fun, for admiring nature and breathing some clean air. i like how you leave up to the reader the interpretation of this!

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

The person could have been enjoying nature or contemplating suicide.
The voice recorder , if the person was considering suicide, it saved the person.
Seems what it says , ' this is not your voice recorder you should let me go'.. maybe a message from God or a higher being as you wish to think saying not your life to take.. it is very thought provoking. I find it to be very different.

Chloe

[?]

This was nice, well written,
the ending was a little off to me, hey but thats me what do I know. lol
Anyway I liked this piece alot, well done

[J.e.s.s.i.c.a]

I love how it rhymes while not feeling awkward. Great job!