Choices (in response to JamesMichaels "At This Very Moment You Only Have Today ")

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Open Poetry #48

Choices (in response to JamesMichaels "At This Very Moment You Only Have Today ")

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2012-12-04 08:50 AM

( I would suggest reading JamesMichaels' "At This Very Moment You Only Have Today ", first)

Choices

Stuck… in the middle of the street,
cars whizzing by on both sides,
inches away,
the suction of their passing threatening
to drag me along like so much flotsam
in a raging stream.
One step either way and it’s flesh and blood
ground into concrete cracks,
unrecognizable as the living, breathing being
that moments before only wanted to cross the street.

Mired in the overwhelming love of me for you,
caught between everything we treasured,
the words spoken in private,
the pleasures we shared, the dreams,
the plans, the perfect world we envisioned,
and you saying goodbye,
go away…
don’t come back anymore.

I watch the bus changing lanes
half-a-block away,
moving to the left,
as if it knows it’s time to feed;
getting close, so it can suck me up,
obliterating the terrible agony of
a two-piece heart, shattered soul,
soundlessly screaming mind.

One step and you’re gone for good,
so much cemetery fodder,
fit only for a paupers closed casket,
remembered only by the passengers on the bus
wondering how someone could do such a thing.

But they don’t know you, what you’ve done.
They don’t know the pain of an undying death;
the terrible emptiness of love gone bad.

The bus approaches,gaining speed,
grill evily smiling, and I do the only thing left…
I race to the sidewalk,
look back, see the bus going away,
and think… To Hell with you,
tomorrow’s a brand new day.

w. james beard, jr.

Victoria

Member Ascendant

since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

1 posted 2012-12-04 10:26 AM

A great response to James poem. A different one for you Jimmy. Enjoyed the ending as it was the beginning of maybe a new love.

~V~

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. by Ambrose Bierce

luminosity
Senior Member

since 2005-11-18

Posts 813

2 posted 2012-12-04 10:28 AM

I love the first and last stanzas, so much turmoil in the first, great resolve found in decisions made

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2012-12-12 07:56 PM

Yes a very nice slice of life...sometimes the things we are going through can affect this very moment in monumental ways...James

katahdin
Senior Member

since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

4 posted 2012-12-12 09:37 PM

Great poem all on it's own, enjoyed!
Kat >^..^<

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