PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

Just Once

Wake up—feel the morning breeze  

stir thin curtains, drumbeats  

thrum against your ribs.  

Talk back, voice raw and sure;  

don’t tell me what I lack.

Save up, turn back,  

bring your favorite melody.

Don’t tell me I’ve no social conscience—  

you’re wasting my creative spark.  

Turn around to the real you,  

hungry for honest justice.

Look up—the sky  

spreads wider than steel and glass.  

Drop your guard; those walls  

are too slick to hold us.

Come with me where the air  

tastes like rain—fresh and free.

Just once—  

maybe just once—  

we’ll agree.