some nightmares carry over to the day

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Open Poetry #38

some nightmares carry over to the day

elisalie16
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since 2006-07-12

Posts 118
new jersey

0 posted 2006-08-03 02:41 AM

our questions can't be answered
by any words our lips could ever form
but we scream them at walls and into each other's ears
as the need to be assured swells inside our pleading minds.

these thoughts can't be made to sit still
as they race and run
and the possibilities they carry
pound deep inside our chests
and rise to meet our throbbing heads.

the resolutions we're craving with such an ache are held
within the bodies we carry as our own
but we can't seem to coax them into light
no matter how long we beg with ourselves.

fists slam hard against wood and rock
and girls with eyes like mirrors
collapse into corners and
bend and break and topple onto stairs
with heads in hands and tears on knees.

strong silent figures stand high above
with steady breaths but shattered eyes
that belong on the floor with the bodies of their baby girls
but hold themselves up, in an attempt to lift those already low.

all the composure we could scrape together
would never compose us enough to
be able to sit straight up and keep our hands folded in our laps
with painted smiles on our faces.

trees fall all the time, but their sounds are never heard
and hearts pour themselves out just the same,
but are never felt or known
by those not there to sign as whitness.

close the door, and click the lock
and we'll slump down onto cold clean tile
that acts as a physical reminder to the point that we're still here
while resting our heads against something
that could never be blunt enough
to knock us out of the reality we wish
was a nightmare we'd recover from by daybreak.

aziza
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since 2006-07-09

Posts 2995
Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy!

1 posted 2006-08-04 10:10 PM

This poem is special.
It speaks of so much
and it wrapped me in emotion.
It's among the best I have read here.

elisalie16
Member

since 2006-07-12

Posts 118
new jersey

2 posted 2006-08-04 10:40 PM

aziza-- thank you very much your kind words mean very very much to me

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