Clairvoyant Calm
The smells of hospitals in
December
can almost taste the anesthesia
faint remnants of uncertainty
expecting outcomes so trivial
from the outside in
passing sleepless strangers in the corridors
thinking to oneself,
if they are worse off than the present situation
you find yourself in.
Praying they are,
Just to be at ease for this moment.
it's in these places that one finds them self in
the omnipresence of Bane.
that, for the first time in their fruitless
existence, they feel God putting his hand on their shoulders, and only feeling the weight.
attempting to find that comfortable spot
at which one can sit for hours is Futile.
and any thought of a clean slate is cast from the mind.
Telling oneself, the back and forth banter with conscience, that
everything
is
fine.
when all, we as humans, have to do is to accept the inevitable.
understand that the intangible is now tangible
and takes place for a reason.
our curse
our dilemma
carrying the weight on our lobes until the latter part of our life, the part where
we close our eyes and
pray for the first time,
pray with utter belief
pray for our soul
pray for someone other than ourselves
pray for the truly needy.
to be selfless and communicate with whomever you believe to be your
ANCIENT OF DAYS.
Pray for rain to wash over,
pray for mankind's fleeting attempts.
I find that the walk outside, for the first time, is the hardest.
Fresh Air
Air, that you think is something taken for granted.
Contemplating the whole way down the man made conveyor
saying to oneself,
What if
What if it happens now
what if it occurs while i am taking in life outside these walls.
Wondering if all things die alone.
regardless of surroundings.
That an earthly death is lonely,
that, the last breath is that of the soul finally, finally escaping this carcass-prison
to return home as he came, alone.
That we are gathered around a Locusts shell that once
held us in great esteem.
Mulling over death, mulling over ones life,
that has been dying since earth beckoned their arrival.
and truly, when this instance, this moment is soaked up
by the brain
as water to a sponge,
we can truly begin to live our lives.
By knowing that death
Death is the only
thing we know to be impartial.
accepting that, is to improve the quality of life.
to embrace what we are,
what we were meant to be.
Immortal.
Copyright © Peter Calvanese Jr. | Year Posted 2009
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