Frozen in Time WineNSarcasm: I cannot seem to move from here, pull forward nor go back. Transfixed inside my miseries that weigh upon my back Isolated as I am, in this empty place This dismal box. Alone. No light within this place. ~ Past mem'ries they beseech me "Look upon our page !" I've read so many times before; it's time to turn the page And forget what happened years ago and move ahead somehow To begin another life somewhere...sometime...ahead...somehow. ~ Join in the public throng and searching for your face This sullen milieu about is me is what I have to face. Surely, joy is to be found, somewhere around me here ! I hear no laughter, no merriment. No. No. Not here ! ~ What cruel jokes the Fates have played on one to such as me Did I do such wrong to them, somehow, that they should torture me Or was I born to bear such pain for all Eternity ? Not sure just why, but I'm frozen. Here. Sadly, for Eternity. (Edited by WineNSarcasm) WineNSarcasm: ohhh, Thank You ! I accidentally made te first 2 lines the same word and thought "hmmmm, wonder if it's possible to do that all the way through"  ConservatorErik: I like this.. both the format and the sentiment. I suspect we all feel, at times, bound by our pasts... bound by our own past choices, and by events we had no say in... WineNSarcasm: Thank you. Ah, yes, the bindings that can hold us so tightly at times and beg us not to go; and too often we submit... | poems Chat Room Similar Conversations |
