Michael Burch Poet Rhyme

Early Poems Xx

EARLY POEMS XX

Cameo
by Michael R. Burch

Breathe upon me the breath of life;
gaze upon me with sardonyx eyes.
Here, where times flies
in the absence of light,
all ecstasies are intimations of night.

Hold me tonight in the spell I have cast;
promise what cannot be given.
Show me the stairway to heaven.
Jacob's-ladder grows all around us;
Jacob's ladder was fashioned of onyx.

So breathe upon me the breath of life;
gaze upon me with sardonic eyes...
and, if in the morning I am not wise,
at least then I’ll know if this dream we call life
was worth the surmise. 

I wrote this poem in my late teens or early twenties.



Tell Me
by Michael R. Burch

Tell me what i am,
for i have often wondered why i live.
Do u know?
Please, tell me so ...
drive away the darkness from within.

For my life is black with sin
and i have often wondered why i am;
and my thoughts are lacking light,
though i have often sought what was right.

Now it is night;
please drive away the darkness from without,
for I doubt that I will see
the coming of the day
without ur help.

This poem appeared in my high school journal, the Lantern. I believe I wrote it around age 15 to 16 during the period I wrote related "I am/am I" poems such as "I Am Lonely," "Am I," "Time" and "Why Did I Go?"

Keywords/Tags: early poems, juvenilia, cameo, time, light, night, heaven, life, dream, breathe, breath, eyes, vision, visionary

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