Two Poems

A Soulless Coma

 

Tears falling as I enter a new chapter

Sitting silently on the sidelines

Watching you reconstruct

Into an irreversible soul

 

You keep glancing over

Making sure i’m still present

While its just my body and blood

Connected to a detached mind

 

I mask it with laughter

So that you’d never be suspicious

Of the empty eyes looking out at you

 

Until I hear your voice again

Send shocks down my spine

Pulling me out of the deafening coma

You’ve once put me in

 

I’m alive but inanimate,

Whole yet halved,

Awake, lying still.

 

Tears fall but are never caught

By the promising hands

That once said they would

 

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An Endearing Sign From You, Mom

 

I remember the day you handed me this ring

The look in your eyes gave me a little sting

I saw the resentment subside,

And fall with every tear you cried

 

You’ve never shown me this type of love

Where it offered a slight little shove

In the direction I always wanted

But never knew how to get started

 

I brought it to every game

I wonder if it’ll ever spark our flame

I carried it everywhere

As it became my second form of air

 

The ring grew into a bridge

To connect the slightest bit of courage

I had left it in my tank

Keeping my mind from going blank

 

It worked for a while

We shared smile after smile

Until one day, the ring broke

And it was the last time we spoke;

 

In the language, the ring, once fixed

 

I still carry it in my bag

Reminding me of the times we once had

It still offers me hope

Despite the slippery slope

We find ourselves falling down

 

The ring has never left my side

And prompts me of the endearing love,

We once tried