Missing the MagicA Poem by Julia Squires
a smile leaves an imprint...
an hour has its price... Missing the magic, When every day was a dream. I used to be youthful, When my thoughts didn't bleed. Now my floating's lost fixation, And every single carpet blanket pillow bed, ceiling skyline sunlight skin, hateful head and purple pen, hurts instead and pulls me then from where I was, and who I am, and how I used to live... I can't remember Staring up at the light, And pointing, pronouncing, Calling it "lie" but I can remember staring up in the dark and begging renewal, asking for life... I never learned how to live here, So elsewhere I escaped; Down in the dreamworld, Or up in the air where they dragged me away, ripped me awake, choked me in chains, and told me a name... But the name was not my own, I always felt unknown, Like something inhuman, Some ghastly ghost, And that need, that notion Of feeling emotion, Pushed me so far That I had to embark, And there at the start, I could only retreat and recapture a piece of a particle, some shred of a shrunken sliver of light; but one day I wandered from my shell to the shoals, searching for self in the sand; and there's a shadow down the shoreline who restored the hope I lost... I've been missing the magic, And maybe I've found it, here in the real world, the last place I'd expect. © 2014 Julia Squires |
StatsAuthorJulia SquiresAboutHi everyone!! My name is Julia. I'm an 18-year-old aspiring prose author with an even greater passion for poetry; I love the sound and rhythm of language itself, how words can flow and dip and swing b.. more..Writing
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