Create Your Peace
I feel like this week’s poem has a bit of a slower pace to it, but it follows in the footsteps of the past few weeks’ poems, which have flittered quite closely around the topic of memories and, in a sense, the creation of a personal history, which is something I’ve written about semi-regularly, so it’s nice to be on familiar ground for a while. This week’s poem was inspired by ‘Way to Fall’ by Starsailor, and I hope you enjoy it!
First Poem In This Series: To Witness, To Behold, inspired by ‘Sowing The Seeds Of Love’ by Tears For Fears
Previous Poem In This Series: In The Corner Of A Nightmare, inspired by ‘My Own Worst Enemy’ by Lit
Create Your PeaceA child imagined heaven–
secular heaven, a perfect world—
in a high school classroom,
setting bitten pen to crinkled paper
on a desk holding carvings recent and ancient–
any time past is historical to a teenager–
and put themself in isolation.
With a word limit and a dream,
they set boundaries in ink–
I will have books, and I will write—
it was not the freedom of clouds,
but the comfort of walls,
personally defined, between the child
and everything outside.
They wanted to breathe,
to sit, to be able to wonder,
safely, about questions and curiosities,
while avoiding sharp tongues and those eyes;
removed from the pressures, the weight
of failure and the cost of letting
anyone see past their walls.
Heaven is preserved in ink,
now, merely an afterthought–
a footnote in the whirl of chaos
that came… after. Not a stain,
it is a beautiful, gentle statement:
pause, and allow the self to flourish;
breathe, and independence will follow.
Connection is everything and nothing–
it is joyous and disastrous,
spiked and welcoming, soft and sharp;
it cannot be lived without, or with,
and it will destroy you–it will make
the child cry, and it will force heaven’s hand,
and feature in every night’s concert–
for better and for worse.
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