Unstill

In

 

Lullaby

 

I promise

 

A kiss so silent

 

It will fall with you

 

Insignificant, yet unstill

 

Down, down, into darkness

 

Beyond streetlights’ white islands

 

Its’ un-kept pyres an’ broken-down engines

 

Into the dormant, deeply -feign of only memory

 

Drawing water slowly, from clouds beneath the sewers

 

An’ in its’ rain, so silent before me -dream, yet nothing to be

 

A very long time to be travelling alone -along, the same dust an’ star

 

An’ as a prayer, lost to darken palms -taken ill beyond gods an’ of alters drew

 

The rotten, forgotten an’ begotten -understood by so many, really loved by so few

 

But a kiss, oh so insignificant! -it can wound so deeply, an’ can sprawl up so blessedly!

 

From the vastly empty -to be with, an’ without me!  So with a kiss, I will leave thee

 

As a rolling gravity -the insidious, in the intended dormant author’s accomplice

 

To help untangle the meaning of dreams -wake; along its bitter, an’ its break

 

Warming trumpets, from shadows once filled deathly -cold an’ heaving

 

To tear the black from its back, an’ in a moment -find quite breathe

 

To rise with the angels, while wingless and unbelieving

 

An’ sit with any man grieving -share in a little death

 

To walk with them, all a bleeding an’ all a rage

 

Never to unlock, nor break open their cage

 

To hold all judgment, an' all emotion

 

An' trust the path they had chosen

 

Then, in a lullaby -I promise

 

A kiss that is so silent

 

It will fall with you

 

Insignificant

 

Yet, unstill

 

Silent

Reviews

[John Alexander McFadyen]

An excellent shape poem filled with classic flavours and full pof conflicting dark concepts like a final kiss before descent into hades. Loved the line:
"But a kiss, oh so insignificant! �"it can wound so deeply, an’ can sprawl up so blessedly!"
Not quite sure why the piece is punctuated with thse questioin marks.

[TheSick]

Thank you John, and thank you for pointing out the strange question marks -I was able fixed them. Go well.

Francois

[Ksenia Kazantseva]

I love this poem! This style is similar to mine, with the repetitive beginning and endings to emphasize. I love it.