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I wish I could go one whole day without thinking
Twenty-four hours of internal silence
Internal bliss
No worries
No hypothetical struggles
Just for one day
Bound by stone, water and bone.
Replenish the river of light.
Keep me tall, prepared for all.
If demons should come tonight.
he promised me
the stars

how was I to know
all he had was
a pocket full

of

GLITTER



SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
(C) 2014 September, 2014
I'm not talking money here.
That means nothing.
I'm talking empty promises of love.

Going to bed now. See you all tomorrow.
Each day I long for something I can't figure out
I search and search, but am filled with doubt
I look a little closer, listen a little carefully
But nothing is there.
My chest caves in,
At the thought of trying again.
I look outside, and lose myself in thought
My eyes open, ears listening, waiting.
Hours, days, months passed
Nothing.
I waited all this time and I still have no answer
I was tired of waiting, tired of trying, so I stopped searching.
I no longer long for what I am missing
For the answer was always right in front of me
but something
The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean—
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
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