They Are Still Beautiful

Older personal writing, figure I'd share.

Fingertips and finger prints, we could all touch base…hesitate...maybe it's to late?

They are still beautiful

Broken home and broken hearts, but they are still beautiful

Missed baseball games, first place ribbon names...its all the same 

(Because no one was there)

Not to say they didn't care…our hearts just weren't beating in the same rhythm

But I know your heart was near, maybe the volume just wasn't turned up

Recess and monkey bars, empty bottles and motel scars…they are still beautiful

Memories and family trees, we must have fell off in the in between

Our branches grew but they grew apart

Our limbs just grow different colored leaves...

A lost boy with out a fathers hand, a lost man with out a plan...But he is beautiful. 

A lost mother with out her husband, the burning cigarettes in the ash try are minuscule from the burning in her heart, as our family fell apart

But she is so beautiful...

Stitched up from ground up we found a way to survive, but it’s never ever the same when we look into each others eyes. 

Brother where are you? Sister? A code name name for stranger, maybe we don’t talk because we were taught not to talk to strangers. Hard to call a brother my brother, when we barely see each other. The stories of us inside a book is full of blank pages…and I hate it. I can always taste it, from my mind to my spine, the foundation is weightless. 

But they are still beautiful…and we…are still beautiful. Despite the despair, the heart is unaware of the distance because it bleeds the same tone of crimson, even if I bleed out your still my brother, and you are beautiful. You are still my sister and sister you are beautiful. Mommy turned to mom and daddy turned to dad. No matter how sad, no matter what...they are still beautiful.

Reviews

[AnnaLeQuinn]

"Recess and monkey bars, empty bottles and hotel scars" love that.
This whole poem was very heart felt. Very touching. Left my heart feeling soft.
Thank you for the beautiful words.
Anna

[Derek Nall]

Thanks for the wonderful review, glad it could touch you in some way :)

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

I like the concept of this one...beauty in everything. Being able to look inside of oneself and see the world with new eyes is quite a gift. I try to be this way; observational. Sometimes I will come upon something that is so "ugly" I am repulsed, but yet a part of me sees something worthwhile in it. Despair, tragedy, pain...there is beauty in all of it.

Again, your pieces are always so very "stream of conciousness" driven. You write in a prose style, and if read that way, the flow is quite nice. Well done, I enjoyed the read.

[Derek Nall]

Thank you :) I guess the prose style just fits me best. If I try traditional rhythmic structure I get so distracted from what I'm trying to say and it just takes away from my emotion. I'm glad you can read it how I'm trying to write it :) thanks for the review :)