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maceeknox

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

1 poem·Since December 2017
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Soil

December 4, 2017

 

Soil


I lie here,

Toppled.

But I suppose they had a reason.

I have, once again, been knocked down.

A pessimist I am not, but -

I will not get up.

Not this time.

I will rest gracefully below this sky.

I will study what I see.


And what I see above me are clouds.

In those clouds I see what I need.

But seems it is here -

Nestled in grass and one with Earth

Is what I want.


I ponder…

When my heart ceases to race,

When my heart ceases to be,

What time will the sun read in this sky?

As the wind envelopes and hugs what is left,

I ask that it sings such a hum -

That I am never truly gone.

 

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