Poetry

Okay, I'm the first to admit that I'm no poet. I've never taken any interest in studying poetry or taken a class to write it but I've tried my hand at it a few times. These are short reads so I hope you enjoy.  More to come if i can find them

Runner’s Anthem 

Today I ran farther than I did yesterday

Though no one cheered for me at the end

Today I kept going when there was nothing left

When inertia was not enough, when routine was not enough, when my body didn’t have enough

Today I scaled the walls of my doubt and weakness

When my finish line was only my driveway

Today I competed

In a world where you’ve never won unless the other guy knows it

Today I punished myself, I showed myself no mercy, I heaved and strided out

I strained and I pushed and dung in and teared up and gasped and fought and stepped, stepped

And then I ran back

And there was no one there at end

No fans

No respect

No looks of admiration

I should have kept running

 Good Goodbye

Dawn breaks

In the morning sky

Falls into your eyes

The moment I wish wouldn’t find us

Not one of those good goodbyes

I can’t seem to let you go

And end the night in your lullaby

Time reigns

In the songs that begin

Red paints your skin

All the strength you breathe in

 I ache when it’s gone

Don’t want to let you go

It the weakness of the dawn

I was just wondering

Seeing all those people wandering

Squinting their eyes in the young sun

All our lives have just begun

On that very day

But when we meet our deathbeds

What will be the moment that’ll be going though our heads?

I watch

You watching the light

Blessing our night

Time will make all things right

With the things that you never say

I can never let you go

Just for the light of day