Footprints in the sand

by Mr Rhee   Feb 16, 2012


The skies are gray. I can't see
where a cloud begins, or ends.
The horizon is right there, within arms reach.

Beyond that, some brighter skies?
A better place...a view to a new horizon beyond?
Footprints in the sand before me...
perhaps, to lead the way?

The days, as long as they can be,
are getting shorter and shorter.
They move past my eyes,
like raindrops, falling to earth.
Stopping suddenly, in a splash.

Each day is behind me, but I don't
raise my head to look forward.
I know what lies before me. I know
what is to come. ...what is to come
...what is to come.

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  • 12 years ago

    by Girl of Conviction

    The skies are gray. I can't see
    where a cloud begins, or ends.
    The horizon is right there, within arms reach

    beautiful :] love this piece great work :]]

    5/5

  • 12 years ago

    by Sourav

    Each stanza is very well written... a good but sad poem.

  • 12 years ago

    by Ole Carsten

    A sad poem filling me with tears and some fear, lovely poem

  • 12 years ago

    by L

    Double post

  • 12 years ago

    by L

    I like how you started the poem by giving the reader an image of the sky. How it's difficult to know if it's beginning or ending? I mean the clouds. I really havent paid attention to that. I haven't asked myself where the clouds start or where they end. So I find that to be really cool.

    Then you gave the reader a color gray.. And to me that sounds like in between of black and white. That your life is in the middle of a situation that isn't bad but isn't good either. But it's taking a route and you don't know where it will head..so my thoughts are that perhaps that's why you want to know where the clouds start or end. Pehaps then you will know if your life will stay in white or if it'll turn darker.

    But I also hope that the sun can makes it's entrance. Good write.

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