more poetry.

[a_is4addiction]

Three poems I wrote for English. All of these poems had certain restrictions, but I can't remember them exactly. I think they're okay- the professor read them all aloud to the class, so that must mean something :)

They all deal with fairly controversial or disturbing topics- anorexia, Hurricane Katrina, and atheism.


Step up
Step down
Step up, again
This nervous game I play-
What will my truth be today?
My feet touch the scale,
An old and dear friend.

I wait-
Small moments pass
My quickly beating heart keeps time.
The hand of the scale tips forward
And back, like a metronome
Before settling.

Down two
I laugh-
A skipped meal,
A counted calorie,
Makes the numbers shrink.

Though I smile,
Inside I cry-
Down two is not
Down three

Down four

Down five.



I tried, trembled, held my breath
until I was so dizzy;
but waiting for the time of Death
was something not so easy.

I watched the floating pots and pans
now Useless, put back on the shelf
saw mama’s dead countenance,
her dress turned up upon itself.

water Danced around my wrist
clung sadly to my knuckle;
I jerked- then twisted- nothing missed
as my Lungs began to buckle.

I felt Time swimming in my head
eyes opened to a film of dirt,
the House, consumed, put to bed
and I, left hanging by my shirt.



First having read the book of myths,
and seen the emblems in procession
the Cross

the Wine

the Body

the Blood
I chased the dragon, this God-
bright with words of unfettered Truth.

Open thou mine eyes!
I see my Messiah for who He is
Jealous

Vengeful

Biased

Corrupt
I stand at the doors, look
up at the steeple, this stone Christ
on a cross, the favored bedtime fable.

And when he looks down at me,
by cowardice or courage
I turn the other cheek.