Man of Stone
Man of Stone
By: Hobbes
When I close my eyes Things seem clearer than ever before.
My mind wanders and my soul is calmed,
I am alone in a place where none can harm me.
Where I can be me and nobody can say otherwise.
And when I close my eyes I can be with you...
Together forever within the limitless space of my mind,
None can take you from me in this, my prison of all places
Yet the only place where I am free...
I hide from a world of terror and hate,
A world of corruption,
A world of Fear,
A world that I helped forge...
When I look back I see my life,
I see a boy, dressed in black,
Mourning the loss of his innocence,
An innocence that was stolen from him by the words of monsters and fiends.
The boy's face is stone,
for the fiends carved it so.
Carved from years of torment and tears,
The boy no longer feels.
He is broken and alone,
Never too be the same.
As the boy grows he feels new things,
feelings of isolation,
Feelings of pressure and stress,
feelings of desire and lust.
And the feeling of being different when everyone else was the same...
Change is enevidable though at times frightening.
And the boy, no the man, made of stone would go in it alone,
For that is how the world shaped him.
But the wheels of change keep turning...
Now the man stands alone,
His path set in stone,
Like the stone that is his heart, body, and soul.
But guiding voices help him as he roams.
Friendly whispers that help to guide the way to the light.
They support him in his times of need,
Strengthen him,
Give him the courage to fight on.
They are why he presses on through the never...
When I open my eyes the world is still pained,
I still have my problems buried in the stone,
But they are there for me,
Both near and very far.
They fuel my fire and keep me marching.
They help me when I need it most,
Maybe even more that they will ever know...
I am myself,
I can choose to live with it or I can do something about it.
But I will never falter,
I will never slip,
I will never cave.
Keep trying to break me,
It only makes me stronger!
I will keep on keeping on!
For I have the strength to do so,
not only from me,
but from my rock, my foundation,
My friends
Copyright © Calvin Genereux | Year Posted 2009
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