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Still

December 5, 2018
By Anonymous

Still-

About the soul, I left thinking

Now, two inches of snow has fallen

Over that meadow, where did I go

 

Everything here, then gone

Watching birds of joy and happiness fly by

Peaceful rain beating down

Sun stretching over trees, now sinks below hills

 

Leaves fall, life seems paused-

Still, for a moment 

Sun dies away, warmth hides for frost

Still, sitting still, eyes out window

Waiting for your return

Where did I go 

The snow is falling

 

Has it been this long, staring through windows, waiting for your shadow casted among meadow hills

How long have I been here-

Waiting for beautiful songs to fill ears and flood thines soul

As I listen, the stillness, cold

 

Snow falls, months like hours, slowly progressing

A glimpse then gone, the world changes

Yet- I'm here, paused, at the meadow still 

Waiting -

Where did I go -

For your return

Still... 


The author's comments:

I looked at some of the things that I have been through... And how i was fustrated with the feeling of being stuck and not being able to move forward. Some of the emotions and imagery I drew from was the memory of my little brother and his fight for life against cancer, and feeling of and black, cold like wegde being driven into my family . Plus the lost of a friend, I decided to sum everything up and kind of step back and look down upon everthing. I also wanted a strong sense of an emotion, I don't know the exact emotion, but want my readers to feel a sense of hope or grasping this far off thing that's so dear to their heart and want to pull that in and never lose sight in but in reality, that things is already gone and you've become lost dreaming of something that'll never come true and you're left dealing with those feelings and wasted years. I wanted to paint a vivid picture of how I felt in life at that time, but kind of blur the full image. Hopefully I did that well and readers like my poem. 


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