Here

Why should I yearn
to dwell with the poets
  in remnants of worlds cast away

where we felt, loved, failed

and burned

  Lost in
the sands of time
where rhyme speaks
of other dimensions
of everyday
in other ways
and
where the beauty of passion
needs desperately,
and inevitably
to bleed into expression

  What pulls me here

where pleasure and pain

and flesh burns

into a brutal sear

Scared and marred into

something jaded

wishing time

would cause

memories faded

to just go away

But I am again

Here

Author's Note

Not an award winner, but maybe this would prime the pump for new inspiration.

Reviews

[A Soapy Mess Stories]

Beautiful words ... loved how the poem ended.

[Revery]

Thank you!

[Revery]

And I'm glad you're here again, as many others. This is a powerful write, full of truth, observed over the years, here, and time here. I think nobody can technically write with pathos as good as you my friend.

It has all it needs, honesty, truth, power in wording, and most of all your unique voice to it.
A Very neat write my friend. Again I'm glad you are here.

- Elisa

[Revery]

Your too kind Elisa. Thank you for reading and saying such sweet things. :)

It's always my pleasure dear friend... good to have you back even briefly like me... ;-)

[h d e rushin]

"A bayonet's contrition
is nothing to the dead." Dickinson said. And I understand that "again here" means the same
as Dickinson meant it in that after one "bleeds into expression", purges the salt from the wounds
of defeat, then "here" is the triumph; the victory over all else....

tremendous write
dana

[Revery]

I wanted to respond with there was no defeat, but I would be wrong, everybody loses and no one wins.

I do certainly feel more comfortable in the fact that since I have alienated myself I now have far less to lose.

Thank you for reading and responding.