Read my Heart - A Collection of Poetry

Poem 2 - Kono Hi wo Tsukeru

Light my Fire

I can cause my ears to be filled with music,

My eyes with things deemed loveliest by many, 

I can try to do what I had never done,

But how do I fill myself before all's gone?

Can it be that the void within myself 

Is too immense; may it not be satisfied?

Or that what fills me hath now ceased to pour forth,

That now, I am hollow, bereft of my worth.

What might be the thing to give back my meaning;

To lend comprehension as to what I'm seeking?

Shall I be for ever an unfilled vessel,

Drained of feeling, nothing more than a shell?

How does it feel to love, to laugh, to exist?

How does one smile? How does one weep and grovel?

What I long for, a chance to life! How I dream

Of a world not a fiend, a world yet unseen!