Uprooting weeds from five years ago - they tower above me now and haunt me at dusk. Their shadows reminding me to finish what I started: "I will remain present until you face me. I am eating away at your secret garden". So I used the strongest poison and all it did was sting my skin. I tried machinery but I got caught within. I looked down at my bare hands and pricked each and every one of my limp fingers tugging on these terrors.
I got caught in vines today. I choked on some of that ivy today. I smoked the leftovers of my pot today and I rocked myself to sleep.
I got caught in vines today. I choked on some of that ivy today. I smoked the leftovers of my pot today and I rocked myself to sleep.
-S
is there a reason you wrote this, in response to something, or was it just natural? i must know.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I was actually doing some gardening when I thought of the concept. It's not exactly in response to anything but I was basically remembering things from years and years ago that I feel I still need address and come to terms with.
ReplyDeletepot helps with that doesnt it :)
ReplyDeleteOh no actually, I don't smoke pot. It was just a metaphor.
ReplyDeleteneither do i. but if it werent for me, other people would think you do.
ReplyDeleteThat's okay. I guess free verse poetry is subject to interpretation. Well, most poetry is anyway.
ReplyDeleteI was trying to build on the whole "garden" theme throughout but different people will read it differently and it's cool that you did.
well then. thats a misrepresentation. :) and you so do not know who i am. the captcha the other day was 'tortuwe' so im taking it as my que to leave.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's really a misrepresentation because this is meant to be a piece of art. Shit or not, it's still art. Anything could be interpreted as anything. I'm not trying to project myself as someone who does/doesn't smoke pot, I'm merely trying to express my thoughts and emotions in a slightly poetic way. If you decided to read that literally then that's just how you've read it and it has nothing to do with what the writer has scribbled down - it's just how your mind has registered it and I'm not saying that's a bad thing or blaming you. It's only natural.
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