Soaked in the blood of your stabs,
My crepe-paper wings won't fly.
They've got heavy with the weight
of blood, dust and guilt,
that they've carried too long,
Flying over the little kingdom I had built;
The kingdom you conquered;
The kingdom you destroyed;
The kingdom that's no more...
You kept pretending to be happy for for me,
Encouraged the gift of my flight.
But underneath, you cursed your fate
and threw stones at me at the brink of my height,
You had no right to destroy that you could never create.
My crepe-paper wings were torn apart.
I was falling under the gravity of your envy
that had so well played its part.
I was falling down to the wrecked kingdom of mine;
The kingdom you slaughtered;
The kingdom you seized;
The kingdom that's no more mine...
I had promised you I'll be flying miles around
to bring you everything in my might.
But your disbelief has got me rooted to the ground.
Your disbelief did cut off the agents of my flight.
There they are,
left to rot and decay
in the dismay of having been cut off
from their owner who created them.
My crepe-paper wings I made to help me touch the sky.
The crepe-paper wings you cut off for your envy,
For they were mine...
2 comments:
I dunno... If I've said your latest poems have been brilliant... This one's just beyond imagine, I loved every single line of it, and I can't believe you wrote it in the middle of the night and still it turned out like that... (Remember the last time I wrote at night :P A grand catastrophe :P)
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It is settled. You qualify among the greatest poets I ever knew. You are the kind that will be quoted in the future and all your works will be immortal. This is such an immortal, vivid, living, breathing, timeless piece... it tore me apart reading it all awhile I felt more whole than ever. No poem has ever done this before. No poet has ever done this before. I bow to you in awe and respect, inspired, admiring.
"The crepe-paper wings you cut off for your envy,
For they were mine..."
I would have wanted to quote the entire thing but these enchanted me especially... <3
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