What Pain We...
/What Pain We Are Given
An piece written earlier this year that I took another look at, tidied it up a bit, and decided to add it to my ongoing anthology of poems which reflects true events that have taken place in my life during the past four years.
————
Most suddenly, it doth not come in a rush
But a lingering moment when you are there..
And then, you are not.
The trials that sit and stare before us
Do not come as a strange surprise
They only look upon us
Strangers, upon uneven, wooden eyes
Then there are those which will come
From above, they cower below
As adults, we seem to know them
But alas, as children, we could never know
For this ode, I give before you
A story for one and old
There is no happy ending
Only words..
The never-ending, forever they shall last..
The most grievous of foes!
Until my end,
I will dip my quill
And I shall tip it to my lips
As I smear the remains onto a letter..
Perhaps a letter, you sent..?
I see the lurking shadow
Will you ever see what frightful eyes
That in your envy you brought forth?
The innocents found to your taste
How Innocence, like death
So alike, do ere long, lie.
To all, you say you love
But All fails inevitable
The ballast kept inside you
The mirror betrays you..
More often now than naught
Strangers will tell tales
Of the deeds you have so crafted
Such injurious seeds you have wrought!
You are the never-ending story
The misery which understands
A weight which one day will swallow
The silence you so desperately sought!
The end of this bent
A hard marrow slowly grows
Your weary tales, soon, as you..
I see your reflection,..
That of a miserable soul
I now watch,
But no longer will see me
As you become frail, parched and old
All forsaken, the utter pain you have fraught
From words of praise and applause
These ties will in time blind you
Those ties now fixed as wax, in a knot
The tales I write,
Soon, will uncover your face
Who also parades as thus
An eye is always watching
And all of those, unto others
How many, doth thou’st soul have it in you?..
To know the grief, they too, hath suffered?
But, for a time left
Seek the fortune,
Never yours to take
But now in your keep
And the pain you brought within
No longer will it sting
For no matter the cost of your golden carriage
Cannot take the words, nor the ink
Away from the writer of this pen
By Andrea W R Jones
From: United States
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-wr-jones-writer-poet-54413b1b