Poetry 62: Home, My Truly Home

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          So certainly do I live within;
          never the outside of my confusion,
          never on riverbed before streams
          but on streams am I relationed;
          for anywhere was never mine;
          but somewhere shall I be buried
          before my birth on stolen places
          with sweetest nothingness am I carried;

          today must live without surprise;
          for today's a mirror of its reflection
          thus, nowhere greatness built its palace
          but barely where I'm bound rejection;
          for secret streaming guides
          into intentions upon possessing;
          my heart's obsession over daydreams
          of winning failures-- non-competing;

          truly home, my truly home,
          my lowly poetry beneath wishes
          of live society's permitted haste
          for torture-teaching wild kisses;
          how true sympathy wraps your warmth
          under my silence' battered will
          to sing verses with earth together,
          now buried ruins breathe me still;

          may never ceasing stands your wall,
          inside where gasping beats my heart;
          for bleeding's never now poetry
          so indecisive leaps my start;
          yet, never now, true, never now;
          for resting questions paused my hows,
          still does curiosity shape my poetry
          where only honesty I allowed.

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