SleepyWitch
01-08-2009, 12:55 PM
hi all. I posted this a while ago in the weird poems thread but I thought I'd re-post it here to get some feedback. Some of you may already know this poem from my blog, so don't bother to read it again.
he’s got himself a new set of eyes
maybe somewhat tentatively green
perhaps even for looking at people – straight -
except their upper halves still cling to
scarred reptile glass, broken sideways for defence
and a friend says he’s definitely not cute
but what’s the point and I hope it’s not,
I mean, I didn’t want to
I always wondered who…. and now I want
something different, rainbow-coloured,
like bubbly, pink blue and green, bauble-shiny
video-arcade butterflies
or
a dose of machine-gun bullets in my guts
to make me feel as long
can’t bleed
can’t love
as long as it don’t hurt
to make me feel
to make me miss
and life’s too long considering it’s so short,
“Who said you have to complicate it?”,
his smile’s gone with the statue-eyes
and I’m left to dream of barchan dunes
and trees of Milton Keynes – too many, 20 million –
and life’s too slim considering it’s so broad
when in the end
the fight was only with yourself.
he’s got himself a new set of eyes
maybe somewhat tentatively green
perhaps even for looking at people – straight -
except their upper halves still cling to
scarred reptile glass, broken sideways for defence
and a friend says he’s definitely not cute
but what’s the point and I hope it’s not,
I mean, I didn’t want to
I always wondered who…. and now I want
something different, rainbow-coloured,
like bubbly, pink blue and green, bauble-shiny
video-arcade butterflies
or
a dose of machine-gun bullets in my guts
to make me feel as long
can’t bleed
can’t love
as long as it don’t hurt
to make me feel
to make me miss
and life’s too long considering it’s so short,
“Who said you have to complicate it?”,
his smile’s gone with the statue-eyes
and I’m left to dream of barchan dunes
and trees of Milton Keynes – too many, 20 million –
and life’s too slim considering it’s so broad
when in the end
the fight was only with yourself.