Update

Okay, so you can officially say the S word now that I’m back to school.  So here’s my quick update. School sucks. Okay so there’s your update. So here’s a poem that I wrote in Pre Calculus because I’m dropping that class.

The Boy with Square Eyes

He saw the world

Less like a sphere

And more like how it truly is

A cube, sharp edges, smooth and

Modern appearance, hard and

Cold, a box

His square eyes sorted

The world he let no circles

Pass into his soul, no triangles

Seeped in, even trapezoids were

Too deformed, squares were his

Business, and oh how he was

Good at business, I stood in his line

Of vision, begging him let my

Rhombus inside it’s nearly a

Square, it’s just skewed by the perception

Of the world, but his vision was

Perfect as was his mission

Only cubes, cubes alone are perfect

That’s all that goes through

He took only square refugees

No exceptions, the pretty and ideal

Ones who didn’t fuss

He didn’t save the others

There’s nothing worth saving there

He’d say, you’re wasting time

Yours and mine, get out of

My view, you taint my sight

His pretty portrait, he

Painted each day, but

He had no color to

Describe me, the cubed

Earth, perfection

We don’t fit in your perfection

Cut your angles then try again

Later, later they keep saying

Everyone will be acceoted later

When the squares are safe

But it will always be later

And never now.

-AcuteAnimosity

Silence

Okay guys, poem time again! As always I want to hear from you all, tell me what you think even if you hate it. The job of a writer is to make the reader think, so even if you think “wow, I hate this” then I’ve accomplished my goal of making you think and feel something! So this poem I’ve been thinking of calling Silence, hence the title of this post. However, if you have any title suggestions I am always willing to consider changing titles (I’m the worst at titles). Okay, here goes nothing and everything.

Silence

Your words don’t worry me

What keeps me up at night

Is the silence between each phrase

That tumbles out of your waterfall mouth

And cascades into my waiting ears

Your screams urge me to respond

I answer you with my heart

Hanging off my sleeve

With my soul peering out of my sea foam eyes

And moths pervading my insides

I’ve never ignored you

But I could never communicate

The way you can

The sounds I’d make couldn’t compare

To the symphonies that you speak

That’s why the silence you make petrifies me

I’ve never heard music more awing

Than your sweet song

Never stop singing

My world would fall

Too quiet to bear

I would tell all this to you

If only I could find my voice

If only we could make harmony

That people would walk miles to hear

I wish I could give all that to you

Instead I offer a hand

Take a bow

You’ve left me speechless and while

There’s no way I could

Stand with you

In the burning light

I will always stand

Beneath you in the still dark

If nothing else

You will always have

A standing ovation of one

-AcuteAnimosity