At the Bakery

by Gabba Gabba Hey   Dec 3, 2008


Grand wishes are sprinkled over half baked ideas
by a smooth, precise hand that never wavers

Would it were that a smile could return those wishes whole!

A greedy mouth consumes the pastry, and vaguely realizes a brief sickness
brought on by some food bourne pathogen

Momentarily the precise hand considers
following a different recipe
but finds himself too settled in his old ways,
too habitually destructive to even try.

A lonely mind watches this tragic lethargy
"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
He thinks sarcastically that death scares him,
why not try that?

Wishes continue being sold, ideas remain undeveloped
but that hand remains unwavering

Nobody can find one that's the better for it.

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  • 15 years ago

    by Ares

    This one holds several different meanings for me...at first I thought it was about breaking the pattern and find new challenges and then suddenly death comes in to the picture and adds so much depth and a bit of terror. The last lines kind of killed of that suspense you created with that "death" line. For the first time I think you toned it down rather that explode with big words and out-of-this-world meanings.

    Still, you've got this amazing gift and you can write a wonderful and meaningful poem and acctually make me feel something, sitting here half across the world away. (and it's not even your best work!)

    You're amazingly talented and I've got so much to learn from you. Every time you post a new wave of poems I feel like I've rediscovered the path home or something like that. You put all these new ideas in my head everytime you log on and I thank you for it:)

    Have a good weekend!

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