M’L Instants Collection #37 :)
Hello Interworld Lovelies, I hope you enjoy this months collection of Instant poems that appear on my main blog @mleighsquickspot if you’d like to check them out. Stay safe and well my friends and have a blessed day :) . I really think this set of short poems sum up my feelings thus far of this year and maybe some of yours.
WashedAwayBridge...
As water rushes by taking with it the planks
Feet grow wet and unsure, hang on for stability
Why... Why were you even out there to begin with
The waters rushing grows stronger
Slip, feet loose traction; the current takes you
Not only you, the bridge is no more
Time took it a way drop by drop
Left behind are only ruins, drowned remains once in a glorious spot
CrumblingTowers...
Look there in the distance, the horizon falls
Pillars to the sky a testament of greatness toppled as a child's toy knocked over carelessly
Can't be restored, just isn't the same as before
What was once a tower has fallen back to earth
Only a memory of what once was before
Made from ivory and gold, taken away in ash
Those who partook of its walls now see beyond them
Look again, now you see what's real
Welcome to the ground, we saw your tower leaning and watched as it fell
ForestBurn...
Feel the coals still smoldering as you step upon them
Needles of pine, bristles of thorns pierce the souls of your feet
Walk amongst the devastation, claims of the mind to not understand how this can to be
Like that of a match flame, flames took all leaving behind nothing but ash
Is this what dreams of your world could be if you continue down this current path...
Breathe in smoke of burnt sky as it floats down from on high
Each step grey, each motion slow and wondering
Could have kept this from happening, no it will happen whether you wish it or not
DamsBurst...
Watch the water rush by, no longer held back buy an unnatural structure.
Even those made by the beaver leak, nothing meant to ever last forever against a force stronger than what it tries and fails to hold back.
Watch the mass crumble under pressure, rubble left behind only due to the design of what the water is unwilling to take.
LampsFlicker...
There is a short out among the wires
Light in darkness begins to fade then reappear brightly
Stand in place afraid to move further the light no longer leads the way
One flickers they all flicker then a black out leaving you alone in darkness
In the distance you still see one light still string shining
It calls to you, yet you know this trek will be at your own risk
Mad is your dash, you make it to the post
A lie all a lie as the light flickers out before you
AbandonedCity...
Lost to space and time
Frozen in place, relic of a moment in human history
Evidence of everything and yet nothing at the same time
Humans once lived here how when where what
Humans now gone from this place answer this why...
Frozen in space and time, time capsule of life yet where did this life go, how did it end...
StreetsCrumble...
Walk not in a straight line for only craters laid as pitfalls await
Each step is a crack upon the brittle ground, your weight it can't hope to handle in it's weakened condition
Tried to be fixed, patched, re-pathed and nothing kept hold
Solid was once the ground upon which we stepped, now there is only danger under foot for us all…
BlowingTrash...
Look at their decayed state
Once pristine, as if to walk a path of a new world
Now littered with the remains of truth that those who are uncaring walk the line
Sift through the clutter, watch our children and animals play in disarray
Truth lines the streets of an uncertain present along the path of yet another challenging day…
ScaredSky...
To look at the Sun hurts now
Days are touch, Nights are rougher
The Moons pale light haunts my mind
Can't we go back to times of seeing hope on the horizon
Breaking is the dawn, Broken is Dusk
The Sun and Moon no longer depict passage of time...
Only marching of storms through troubled lifetimes
ClothsInTheWind...
Lines of life feel the wind blow
Hanging in mid air each group a story
Criss cross from home to home
Seen from window to window
A life shown in cloth
A story woven in fabric
WindowFaces...
Looking around they watch as you pass by
Eyes of every color and shape peering out
Glass stricken with prints of hands
Wiping away the frost that blocks their view
Looking back you see them
Your eyes transfixed upon questions in the mind
Why are we like this doing this now
What do you see in me
What do I witness in you...
TangledStairs...
Walk inside start to climb
After a while feels as if you've been climbing forever
Look up to the top of the twisted maze
Can you see the end at all
Zig zag spirals twist and turn bending every which way
Just keep climbing you feel that you must continue
Something has to be waiting for you at the end...
Let me know what you think and pass the thought along my friends :)
