The New
Its easy to pretend that the voices won't haunt me again.
I draw a breath, oh how the air is fresh.
The morning dew,
So beautiful.
Everything that is old,
Has become new.
Its wonderful to be alive,
For I can now say this life is mine.
This world I have ?nally dominated.
I'm better than the rest,
For the best are now faded.
Only they remember the very few.
Not a few.
Just me and another, him and I, just us two.
Everything that is old,
Is becoming something so new.
Oh how the days are short.
To the callings I no longer make a retort.
I circle the last in me, the last of my courage.
I look at the remains, the mud from where it had rained.
I look at my heritage.
This is my town,
And this is my world.
So I am here.
I'm ?lled with glee so I twirl.
This is my history.
Yet this is a new mystery.
What happened here?
What once stood, ruling and bossing and betraying and beating
Those who only wanted nothing to fear?
I feel all the pain, memories, and history run through me.
I feel the wind carry me home.
I am here and I don't care that I stand alone.
Now that that is shone I must say,
Something I wanted to say,
Day after day.
I see the old mixing and creating the new.
Copyright © Brianna Wahlquist | Year Posted 2015
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