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The Quiet Man
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Personal Poems Listens to the world around him.
Watches with eager eyes.
The people,
The sights.
Takes snapshots with his camera.
The beauty of the trees,
The valley,
People.
A quiet man,
Deep in thought.
Who only wants to be left alone.
But sometimes yearns to be held.
There’s no reason really,
Nothing truly horrible has happened,
There’s no real need.
Hasn't had a traumatizing experience.
Yet just needs a reassurance,
He’s not wasting the years away.
There was a time when no one would think,
He didn't talk much,
Shied out of the light,
Avoided attention.
The past few years it has changed,
He became a loudmouth.
The asshole.
Yet times are changing,
And he is retreating.
Returning to the bleakness of the past.
The time when he didn't talk as much.
He likes her,
Just not like that.
And he doesn’t' have the nerve to tell her.
He likes them,
But they wouldn’t know,
Because he has never told anyone.
The quiet man,
Sitting silently,
As the world passes by.
The one that sits alone at the parties,
The one who only speaks when spoken too.
It’s something he hated,
But now wishes that he was back.
The quiet man,
Reading alone,
As the world tries to talk to him.
Perhaps it was better not talking,
Not over your head in lies.
It’s so tangled that id rather be lost in a rainforest,
Then the lies I have created.
The quiet man,
Ponders the future,
Regrets the past.
Doesn’t believe in himself,
Doesn’t believe in others,
It’s a wonder he talks to anyone at all.
At the end of a thread,
And about ready to collapse,
Yet people wouldn’t know,
He hides it so well.
The cryptic messages he sends across.
No one understands,
There to busy to even pay attention.
A freak?
A loser?
A loner?
A quiet young man?
It’s hard to tell,
All one rolled together?
It’s for me to find out,
And for you to decide.
This sounds like my ex until recently when he's become yet the loudmouth asshole again..
I like this poem. I can relate to it in just about every line. Seems to sum things up doesnt it.
Its hard to change..
First, I like the way you intergrated the title ( The Quiet Man ) into the first line. The body of the prose was indeed remarkable however, this would have been a much stronger and pointed poem if you ended with the lines ending..."There to busy to even pay attention". But the again to insert your own personally into the ending is quite justified in this case. Good job!
R
Liked it
very good poem. i can relate to it a lot, i've always been a loner.