Vagabond

A poem about those that feel the need to wander...

Darling girl, I miss you

though you’ve never left my side.

I want to us both to go, but you say

you would rather that we stay.

-Darling, please don’t hide away inside.

 

Is it so bad that I am hungry,

that I need something to eat?

There’s a restless beating

in my feet,

-this fleeting feeling that I must leave.

 

Girl I want to tell you,

all the things I cannot say.

There’s a breaking in my center,

you're the summer in my winter,

-but I feel a need to leave today.

 

Come with me,

Let’s go and see the world,

I tell you girl there’s something more

outside that door,

-there’s a world ready to unfurl.

 

If I stay here for much longer,

I think I’m likely to slip and fade.

I can’t trade a world of mystery,

for things I read in history,

-when there’s our own to be made.

 

And maybe there will come a time,

when I don’t need to leave anymore.

When I find a place to call my home

and lay my bones,

-and hang my hat beside the door.

 

But until then, darling, you have to know,

I have a need to seek and love and learn.

So turn off your fears and come with me,

after we've seen what we can see,

-home will be all the sweeter when we return.

Reviews

[RachelReaper]

oh, this was so sweet!!!!!!!!!!! literally what every girl wants to hear. You will either make a wonderful boyfriend or a really good player.

[MachinaWriter]

haha, what's with all these girls talking about player's all the time? I keep hearing this s**t. Good guys have to prove themselves now in the crowds of emotional neglectful men lol I'm glad you liked the poem, though, it means a lot.

[RachelReaper]

hey, we gotta watch our backs, don't be too hard on us. lol

[MachinaWriter]

haha lol I know, trust me xD

[eglantine]

"and lay my bones, / -and hang my hat beside the door." best two lines. This actually reminds me of my bf and I right now. He wants to wait to settle down and start a family until after we've explore the world and seen its wonders and ways. Thanks for sharing

[John]

The case for wanderlust, that works very well. My only criticism is with the stanza beginning 'Come with here'. The speaker is making the case for his partner to accompany him, but I think it needs to be stronger. What more has she to gain by leaving home than just seeing the world?

[eglantine]

agreed

[Southern Cross]

It's all in the balance. Give a little take a little..Meet half way ..Seeing new things, exploring is always better with another to share it with. If you don't have someone to experience life with you just become a vagabond with no roots

[MachinaWriter]

Exactly. As always, you pull the kernel of truth out of all the things I try and do.