Shakespeares corner
From the football field in the rain. Warmth, correctness. The chair comforts my wounded, empty stomach. Rain comforts, the changing room comforts. Hiding, in shell, is comforting. My bedroom is comforting. My father’s beard that comforts will eventually be mine; my mother’s steps away, that comfort, will not. I will however, be my grandmother’s phone calls. Through sadism, through rape, through infanticide and through heroes shattered. The iron runs through like bullet sand I stand on the grass. Iron like claret, like the scattering of crows in the morning. Like fireworks, like tears. Growing, trying, worsening, learning.
I’m getting older and I don’t like it.
About this poem
This poem is about growing up and trying to find one’s way and one’s purpose.
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Written on September 19, 2023
Submitted by jamesfeeney224 on September 19, 2023
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Stanza Lengths | 1, 1 |
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