PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

After this length of time you’d think I’d be gone

So long trapped you wouldn’t even know I was real

And I’d hang like a picture in a lonely hall

Pretending I could radiate happiness into your eyes

But once again you can’t see my perspective at all

I feel like whoever watches the fly as he watches you from his wall



Fireflies in a jar

A galaxy of living stars

And the youth laugh

Unaware they’re slowly killing any chance

That the fire has to keep burning



How can it be that the sun is setting on all horizons

Seems the darkness is caving in in all directions

It’s always where you can’t reach that you have to go

It’s always when you try your hardest only to fall

That the light at the end of the tunnel is the only light you know



We are inside a circle of two-way mirrors

Able only to see our own reflection

While outside the world beckons us

For the courage to cast the first stone

Fireflies in a glass home



Fireflies in a jar

A galaxy of living stars

And the youth laugh

Unaware they’re slowly killing any chance

That the fire has to keep burning



After this length of time

I can still feel the light burning deep inside