Thursday, 22 October 2009
Cold Rainbows
Cold Rainbows
My dreams were the clouds but you blew them away
You brought in the night just to darken my day
For every flower I planted, you tore down a tree
You were the cruel stinging wasp, disguised as a bee
The garden of my childhood knew no escape
You were the fence and the barred iron gate
The flowers all die at the sound of your name
I weep in the downpour of warm summer rain
A pot of fool's gold where all of my pain goes
You banished me there beneath a trail of cold rainbows
I guess I always thought one day I'd escape
But freedom's an illusion only you could create
The only time I felt free was when I looked to the sky
Spread my arms, felt the breeze and pretended to fly
But this feeling was fleeting and I'll always be here
Shivering in the snow, in the storm of my fear
The flowers all die at the sound of your name
I hide in the shadows of the cold winter rain
A pot of fool's gold, where my hope not my pain goes
I'll follow my heart through the trail of cold rainbows
© Charon 2009
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O.O wow what an intense poem. *shivers at the chills down his spine*
ReplyDeleteWonder what name that might be? But that would ruin the mystery and the power of that poem me guess.
C.
It may do. I think an unvoiced name is an obvious image of power. Think of all the unnamed characters in the world. "He who shall not be named" from Harry Potter. "The Unspeakable One" from Red Dwarf. The Nameless Samurai 'Sanjuro' in the Seven Samurai. Sanjuro means, 30-ish male. The nameless and sole character in the videogame Shadow of the Colossus.
ReplyDeleteIt's intriguing because of the questions it raises. When those questions are answered, the mystery is no more.
yup. well said.
ReplyDeletec. (the nameless one)