You're a stimulant

You're a stimulant, you are, you
throw a monkey wrench into my incessant rest
and rouse me from numbness.
I've lain rutted in rain gutters
under a thick membrane of clutter
where my voice slips into the mucus
of those slimy walls I'm filled with,
and my words flirt with themselves, coquettish,
clandestine somewhere in an alley
outside the locked doors of me.

The energy you give me
carries into clarity,
if not precision, forgiveness,
you're a stimulant.

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

Amazing use of words and thoughts. I liked the energy and the drive of the words. Made the reader feel the need and the stimulant of another. Thank you Marcie for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[h d e rushin]

stimulant: functional activity or efficiency of an organism or any of it's parts...so says Webster
who died about 175 years ago, so what does he know about 2016 physiology. Well if he was here
to tell us, he would mention how it hasn't changed much since 1843; that there will still be
people who come along to clear a way for us. To make us see clearer.

well written Marcie....dana

[M. Shepherd]

Yes yes yes yes they clear the cobwebs and dust don't they, they make everything sparkly clean and shiny.. :) thanks for the thoughts Dana.

[wolfshrew]

I'm always trying to stay open to finding these people, if you have any advice on that, let me know.
Again, you're always so well written. I could read your words flirting to each other over and over.

[M. Shepherd]

:) thank you m'lady. I don't have much advice for finding stimulating company other than many of them are often on plenty of stimulants themselves.

[W.k.kortas]

The way the end winds back around to the beginning is certainly clever, but there's more than garden-variety cleverness here. The use of near-rhyme and the wonderful phrasing raises these piece well above the merely clever. There be some meat on these bones.

[M. Shepherd]

Awr gawsh thank you wk

[jacob erin-cilberto]

we have to forgive others, most often forgive ourselves for the relationships that damage us...

i have also lain in those rain gutters, a bit too often...but there have been those who have woken me up...and allowed me to live and love again.

j.

[M. Shepherd]

I'm thankful to have been hoisted from those gutters myself - and glad you continue to exist outside them too.
I have to forgive myself for not being perfect and not finding precision at every moment..

[. serah .]

-- ohhhh... how poignantly you persevere to present the significance of "forgiveness"... -- my favourite short piece by you so far was the one about trees... but this one is in the same league...

[M. Shepherd]

Thank you m'dear - forgiveness is a virtue and perfection is only an ideal to be smiled at and acknowledged as generally ludicrous - but sometimes it's hard not to hold myself to those impossible standard. When I find someone who makes me feel as though I continue to meet my own standards without needing to even try, that's magic.

[. serah .]

-- wow... that's something to aspire for... i've never experienced that...

[M. Shepherd]

Or at least who makes me feel like I can forgive myself for not being perfect ;)

[. serah .]

-- hahahahaha... you're dangerous, M. ... :p -- besides, who said you're not perfect...? i would never believe such a person... :)

[Ed Hart]

look how many of us are blindly bowing into the wind...

[M. Shepherd]

Hmm I think it better to bow than to be bowled over
But perhaps it better to walk with the wind? To make eye contact with it?

[Ed Hart]

or take a picture of it

[M. Shepherd]

I see you now -
Sigh, I strive. Striving is closer to witnessing Einstein's mysterious universe than bowing, to be certain.
Thank you for the thought, Ed. I'll be mulling, today.

[Ed Hart]

Marcie, it's a wonder that that beautiful heart of yours can fit inside of you

[M. Shepherd]

:) I glow from that. May be the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.

[andrew mitchell]

I loved this, clever, satirical, write on the stimulus that stimulates you. clever wording! well done

[M. Shepherd]

Thank you andrew!