Short Reopening Poems

To  discover life
       we must to reopen wide
      our doors and portals...

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Recreating the same 
Eventful episode
Going through my head, 
Reopening the main source to my 
Exhaustion only
To feel a shiver going to down my 
Spine...

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New Year: the reopening of hope's gates to let unfulfilled dreams enter reality's ground!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
    31 December 2017



Happy New Year...

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Wanting you,
knowing I couldn’t have you
I called the devil my friend
as he surrendered the key
The lock to your heart reopening,
the hourglass turned over
In the flames of December
—running back to you

(Houserville Pennsylvania: December, 1971)...

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Scattered flippant words spoken without thought
Reopening new wounds pouring in the salt
Oh how it burns

The emotion of feeling a thing again and again
Causes an upheaval of anger to surge
Makes me want to run away

Oh how insensitive one can be 
to those you once loved so dearly
Cheaply the words were spoken, 
how artificial the feelings one must have conveyed 
To dig at a wound so freshly dug and make it hurt again....

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I read the words on the little screen
without any thought, without any feeling
they mean nada, nothing to me
that door closed--no reopening

doors I close without a pause
not to make you feel you had flaws
not a vendetta, I'm not your cause
if you can read this, you know who you are

never an answer to any of my dreams
a one-oared boat on a quick stream
remember way back when once you screamed
a little overboard.. a little to extreme...

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