Paper Airplane (for Chelsea)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't we all posess a treasue chest under torn spiderwebs?

In it we keep

a slice of cake,

a pencil,

a nostalgic music box,

a crystal drop of rain,

a snowflake,

a pair of socks,

a face with a mask,

and a song. 

 

Some of us lost the key to the chest of warm memories.

Some of us would not dare to open it yet:

The scent of failure would reek out of it.

Then the voice of an unhappy weak person saying: They want to go home.

And when when it resounds, it makes us unhappy and weak too.

 

But we must learn to approach it admit that it will always exist as a piecof us, make peace with it, then hold it in our palms, fold it little by little, make it into an airplane of thin paper and set it free from our balcony.

 

It is difficult.

It will takes time. .

And it will make new human beings out of us.

Author's Note

Comments, reviews, and corrections are appreciated.

*Image by *ethe
*Link: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=paper+plane#/dkzok5

Reviews

[Jeff]

A very good poem!

[Lucid Smile]

error on second to last line, How fabulous, we hide things we love and we like to look back on them, just like photographs, you forget and then you remember. i like this one great job

[Emunah June.]

How beautiful

[Geralyn Miller]

Kepp only the memories that bring you happiness; keep the lessons learned from the unhappy ones and let the bad memories go.
I love the image of memory as a paper airplane we set free, beautiful.

[bookworm]

very good you had a typo in line 16 but other than that AWESOME!!!!!!

[Mauricio Montoya]

some things are left behind for a reason and some cling deep within our minds while others we simply want to forget, you've made many good point in this piece in which we must come to terms with in order to grow spiritually.
Excellent write.

[Chelsea]

That is such a beautiful poem, the message has so much wisdom, much more than paper airplanes!
Great write!

[Janice Ann]

AGREED! We go through and know it will be hard! Great piece!

[Coyote Poetry]

A very good poem. The set-up of the poem made it a pleasure to read. I like the decision of releasing the pain by a tossing of a paper airplane out of a window. A excellent poem. Thank you.
Coyote

[Madison A. Wright]

always stay young at heart i always say.. the line:

Some of us lost the key to the chest of warm memories.
Some of us would not dare to open it yet

kind of makes me sad knowing people lock out their childhood and forget how to live life. keep on writing.. i loved this poem..