So I do Poetry Fridays with my students, and lately we've been watching Brave New Voices and I've been inspired to write again. I'm turning out poems! Here's one I wrote today. Our topic was write about what you're afraid of:
Siddhartha
my brother
I, too am afraid of myself
I'm afraid of where my mind goes
where Fantasy
iron diamond
potent
my realities distorted
can never be as intoxicating as who I
imagine you to be
a puzzle doll
pieces of me
I'm afraid that I love so quickly
affections like when I recognize myself in that pain
behind your eyes
can't get it out of my head can't reconcile that
mirror brother
like I want to lick your tears
like my demons and yours are bed-partners and loss
runs thicker than blood
twin light dark
I can't rescue you
but the likeness in you resurrects all I thought I've overcome
and it scared me that I haven't fully moved on and maybe
we never do
but I take twisted solace in the knowing
it's a thing
not a you
kinship that stings like love
split skins that mesh black magic.
Published on February 19, 2016 12:00