I�m right here

Albert's Poetry Caf� challenge: A prose poem using 10 words: BOX, REMAINS, PROJECT, OUTSIDE, FOREVER, MORE, VASE, ACT, ILLUSION, BREATHING

 

Who is far away?

It is always you

Never me

 

Time and distance if forever measured

From the place where I stand

 

I’m right here

Living inside this vase that is me

Holding a simple tenderness always in knots

 

Surrounded outside

By the remains of the illusion of some project

That was supposed to be ours

And new challenges, old friends

Billions of other lively things

 

The more you want to put everything in the same box

And trying to justify your attitudes

Don’t go on and on

trying to confound your resignation

With being sensible and wise

 

Crying over spilt milk is inutile and brings no good

We have to stand up and start the new day

Experimenting always a new better way out of the mess

 

Looking closer I just see you breathing in

Your desolation and uninteresting for life

Making as if you are displaying a great act of patience

 

Life is made of laughing away the disillusions

Dancing with this constant change

And make from each word a new challenge

 

I know how very hard it can be

To look for a lie and find a hurtful truth

That is why I can understand when you close your eyes

Refusing to see the reality spring around

 

You know where you can find me

 

I’m right here

Never far away from myself and my reality

Looking at the truth in the eyes

And never afraid of lies

 

 

Reviews

[Salvatore Buttaci]

I read this poem and I love it even more the second time!

Sal

[Wildecat]

Excellent poetry, a pleasure to read.

[Tovli]

nicely done and organized. the poem has a strong sense of balance and persistence. tovli

[Salvatore Buttaci]

Oh, you are good! I loved this one!

Sal