Reeling

Lyrics flowing through like the very air I breathe

Ryhthm pulsating in my veins and coursing though my body

My heart, light and bursting forth from its cavity on glided angel wings,

Open as it was the very day I was newly born into the world.

For the first time in a long time

after being held so captive in my own fear,

There is a distinct burning within me,

evident in every hitched breath I take.

I feel invigorated.

 

My mind hinges on every note, every lyric

reeling at every syllable.

The walls begin to crumble in the daylight

and the ground beneath my being begins to quake.

Something is changing,

and though the words themsleves hold no meaning,

I remain anchored by intuition to believe this poem was meant for me.

That his voice,

his feeling,

his song

was something I knew.

That his life,

his memoirs,

his experiences

would promise to uncage me and take me into the constellations

should I just realize I had the key in my hands all along.

For the first time in a long time,

I saw a reason for the essence of life.

and as I cracked a spiderweb through an existence of impossibilities,

I felt a familiar smile of pride beam from somewhere in the dark.

I know you. And I still believe in you.

 

I forewarned myself of these deadly effects,

fully knowledgeable about the consquences of such rich, hypnotic melodies.

 

I might let myself get carried away.

 

I might let myself indulge in fantasy.

 

Nonetheless, I proceeded still

and I fell in love,

like I knew I would.

 

I allowed myself to willingly drift

And I let the rhapsodic rainfall carry me away.

No complaints

No Conditions.

 

Because every track, pensive, melancholic, uplifting or otherwise,

Made me wake up a part of myself

I had tried for so long to keep alive.

A childlike dreamer, a moonlit sky that whispered to me,

"One day, I'm going to make something beautiful like that too."

 

 

 

 

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