Stone

Living is getting harder

Reading sad lines to make me feel more

For pain is sharper than pleasure

And helps to chip off this dull weight

 

For a moment the veil slips away

Delicate patterns melted by tears

And the slightest of glimpses behind it-

 

But then

The sting fades off

And the me I saw there

Is hidden from view once again

 

Numbness

Settles in like a familiar dull ache

Draining the life from my bones

Flesh dissolved into apathy

 

Slowly I’m changing

Into crumbling stone

Slowly I’m fading

 

Rain will wash through my pebbled remains

Sweeping them into the devouring sea

And there amongst the changing waves

In passion and destruction

I will finally be free

Author's Note

This, and the image with it, were both created by me as an exploration of a dream I had.

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

you are a great visual artist as well, ya know...i do need an illustrator...lol...seriously, fantastic work

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I must go back and view the image but this would be so great in front of Metamorphosis of Narcissus by Salvador Dali...fantastic writing here, you are great.

[beancountersar]

Simply and extraordinary piece of work. I read it twice and was really taken by it the second time. I read another one of yours as well...
Your writing is complicated, yet very understandable, which is, at least for me to read, unusual.
Standing ovation..I love it.

[Michael X]

Sincerely depthfully charged and well written with a metaphorical ammbience that
shadows the meaning, beautiful imagery, to ponder waves crashing on shore,
you bring this poem to life with skill. Nicely Done.

[Spoken]

I know the feeling and you write it well. This life can break you if you haven't the will to fight any longer. One can only take so much, but I feel you will fight on... the gift you have isn't meant to crumble in the waves.

[PianoandPage]

"Rain will wash through my pebbled remains
Sweeping them into the devouring sea" - i really like these lines.

good poem. sad how we become stone... it's defensive and shows a deep and lasting hurt.