March 27, 2011

  • it doesn’t matter
    it just doesn’t

    i started writing when i was fourteen
    and i’ll keep writing
    till i shuffle off this immortal coil

    i will always come back to my words
    to my understanding of what means the most

    to love
    to soul
    to the brevity of speech

    and i don’t care if it’s one line at a time
    or a bucket full of water
    that pours from my mouth

    giving way
    to adjectives
    adverbs
    and the occasional

    prepositional phrase

    only visible
    only viewable
    through life
    through living

    and the insatiable
    unattainable assets
    of knowledge

    that comes from my heart
    from my head

    like the slow burn
    of summertime ash
    or a cold rain in the fall

    that leaves nothing behind

    except memories of forever
    that are forgotten

    in an instant.

Comments (10)

  • You’ve tapped into my thoughts again. Only your words are beautiful, strong, perfect.

  • I am not you and it does matter.  I began talking simply to here something other than nothing- to entertain myself until I met the shrink for a lil chat on why talking only to myself is worthyof concern.  I didn’t shut up and got lucky to find people to talk to or what the hell I could write a story or two.  I mean the very first day I learned to read so to speak was alo my first day as a writer and i still have that out of date wallpaper to the 80′s covered story collecting it’s air from the bottom of somee steel cabinet…..somewhere….maybe. I picked up a guitar and three and a piano as in to play it at 7  I put both down- the first becaucI …you know I don’t know why I put the guitar down- I guess I just didn’t wrap around it right…. I felt silly holding what was as much air as me……only to adore a piano wich can crush me and isbigger still ;)  I put the piano down because I want to feel it course through my soul and if it doesn’t I want nothing to do with it.  I’m apparently more fickle than you- I put thing up and down….maybe i should have learned to juggle…. oh yeah I wanted to commit suicide the day I was shown how large the catalogue of ineptitude I posessed in anything to do with my hands…. good thing I read books as otherwise I had nothing to shine at.  and you already know I’m fickle and care sometimes a and sometimes not-  eeny meeny miney moe….what the heck do I care toss it and watch it go.  uh oh it was a treasure from heaven so i should root around in the trash to find it again.  I am not you and it does matter.

  • I’ll never stop writing either; I think most writers feel that way- it’s almost a part of our DNA.

  • lyrical, loved the use of writing language.  me too, i can’t give up.

  • those last couple stanzas really do it for me…

  • @HereLiesNelsontheGreat - nelson! you old dog, good to hear from ya. 

  • took the words right outta my head

  • @thomas_michael - ha…hello Mr. Thomas…long time!

  • @HereLiesNelsontheGreat - Your profile pic makes me think a Nelson action figure would sell well.

  • I loved this a lot :)

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