My Quest and I

This is a moderately experamental 'shape' poem. I'm interested in seeing how it translates into this little box we're given... Its about the search for meaning, happiness

This is the last time:

                        Now,

            you and I won’t move

        ‘til we find what’s wrong here.

    In here.

This is on me like waves on the beach –

        with each rolling crest I feel it digging deep

 

                        are my m                                   

                   off         e                                  for   ni                                carried off

           Washed         mories.                 hope   gh                           work   by

                                                       away        tly                       my      this

                                                Rinsed             dreams.         I saw    dark

                                                                                         Week        in the

                                                                                    Last                   swirling deep.

           

            Grain by grain these crashing beauties

    sweep me further out to sea.

Once, I had faith in low tide;

        now I am reconciled to drowning

                 one gulp at a time.

On a plane of rhyme and season,

what logic guides these tidepools

and strips the leaves from the trees

and robs the sun of the sky?

                                    What’s that?

Yes,

Thank you, my friend,

                                                                                                            I forgot.

                                                                                                   For a moment there,

                                                                                    I thought I might grasp –

                                            Everything

Author's Note

Read the 'waves' up and down, not across... Sorry if the type is too small, this is the biggest I can get it without distorting the shapes...