The March.

A Poem by i.am.the.sun.

i can't remember where but i heard the line "will feel the soil with my bones" in some song and it gave me an idea. i held onto it for a while and what do you know- i'm in germany and this happened.

i will walk until i feed the soil with my bones

and i will not stop for food or water

as i do not need these things for where i aim to go.

i will not look back at who i leave behind,

at who will age and crumble where they stand

as these statues do not line the halls of where i aim to rest.

the years will pass beneath my feet like dreams within my sleep,

and names will fade from faces and those faces to the distance.

of all the places they will haunt not one will be my thoughts.

my soul will ware with each desert crossed

leaving pieces of myself at every corner turned

until i walk on bruised and bloody heels leaving crimson prints behind.

the heat will bake my skin, the rain will wash the dust,

and this coat of skin hanging on these bones will fall;

i will be then just my core, only bones outside an empty husk

bones are brittle and will break, marrow staining resting rocks.

this last effigy will fail, falling forward with momentum

pointing in direction one last time at where i aim to go

i will then be free.

© 2012 i.am.the.sun.

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John

The poem could be subtitled Marching to the beat of my own Drum. It's the sort of declaration we expect from people who achieve remarkable feats, against all odds, in science, the arts, politics, etc. Nothing or no one is going to stop them from achieving what they’ve set out to do.

I think the rhythm and long line express this absolute determination to succeed. The concluding line can be read ironically. Will the speaker consumed by ambition ever really be free?

A fee suggestions you may like to consider:

line 9 (in?) my thoughts
line 10, desert for 'dessert
Using the capital I for the personal pronoun throughout