Noise That Couldn’t Be Me

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Open Poetry #31

Noise That Couldn’t Be Me

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2004-03-21 09:26 PM

Noise That Couldn’t Be Me

Felt the cold,
the dark.

Heard despair
spring from my lips,
not words,
or cries,
but sounds of agony,
the knelling bells
of deaths own chariot . . .
coming.

And yet I lived
to see the dawn
through blood-shot eyes,
and croaked some noise
that couldn’t be me,

I stumbled to the kitchen
another bottle
of whatever I’d bought,
and began my run again,
down that endless road
of forgetting . . .
you.

Of forgetting . . .
you.

w. james beard, jr.
(c) march 2004

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2004-03-21 09:38 PM

there has to be a place at the end of that road where we can smile and laugh again

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

2 posted 2004-03-21 09:53 PM

Passing Shadows...me thinks in large part that oneself needs to create such a space of solitude and safety where one can stand and regroup no matter what hand has touched one's soul, an inner-sanctuary where sanity maintains no matter what life throws at one's feet - one from which one starts out fresh again by locking the vault and saying good-by to the past, except in memory.

jimmy

[This message has been edited by jwesley (03-22-2004 08:25 PM).]

Grover
Senior Member

since 2004-01-27

Posts 1967
London, ON, Canada

3 posted 2004-03-22 07:31 PM

This is a very good write which I really enjoyed!

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

4 posted 2004-03-23 12:01 PM

Jimmy, this was heart wrenching -- but, a good write. ........jo

muted

Member Elite

since 2004-01-15

Posts 2949
Elapsing, Eclipsing, Evolving

5 posted 2004-03-23 01:12 AM

yes it hurts, but youve said it aloud..it is a noise that is you..and i hear it, and it is touching

Snow

Senior Member

since 2000-10-16

Posts 1170
desert flower looking for rain

6 posted 2004-03-23 02:07 AM

:::quiet applause:::
this is very good, imho!!

snow

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