I read so much pain
I bleed so many lines
words come like tears
binding blood to wounds
in rhyme
divinity's grace sprinkles
empathy outward from within
I peer in so to better peer out
fully realizing that
dishonesty towards self
only attracts more stigma
to one's sin
copious amounts of disturbing
rhetoric
poets and non poets alike
tell themselves
repeatedly in such suffocating wind
it's just easier to see it in poets
cause they write it out
accosting their readers' eyes with
all their self recriminations and doubt
fanciful no longer am I
though I may seem so in some wordings
I place so hopefully to the page
when really in the end
all I am is what I've always claimed to be
a conduit
standing fearfully behind the mask of
'My Spirit's Sage'................
(May 2, 2014 735pm)
Author's Notes/Comments:
As written verbadum to new fellow post poems poet RoseRiguel in my comments to her poem/short story, "I feel Quite Lonely, about to burst into tears"
and after reading your poem that was the final stage for a collage of such of poems full of pain. I found I couldn't take any more and had to have a word page bloodletting of sorts. This poem was inspired by the last 15 or so poems of other poets (yours lastly included) that I read. I had to release all that had invaded my heart's very being. So much sorrow begets so much mercy I truly believe in the eyes of the Lord. Thank you for adding me as your friend and follow. That was what started it all. I was looking through my list of "Friends" who have chosen to add me and then I came upon another sub list of those who wish to "Follow" me and I was quite beautifully stunned. That was what began my Journey cause then I chose to go and read the comments on my poems and then comments to the comments I'd made on other poet's poems. So quite by the train of events, here with your poem I come full circle and so I share with you the compilation of what all that pain I read and absorbed, turned into inside me and came out of me in the form of a poem all my own. Enjoy. Sincerely, Melissa Lundeen.
