What the Wind Tells

by Poet on the Piano   Sep 8, 2012


Talking is hard.
These conversations that pop up like a new
notification on Facebook, a new streak of
permanent black pen on blue converses
that I wear when I'm
lonely.

Have you ever mishandled time,
like I did?

I took wrecking balls to amity and made
it a crashing site for dark miss-you kind
of hearts....

You wrote hello for the first time since
I drowned in anger and wrote how ugly
my anger was.

What else can I say then I am well?

How can I wish for time to fall slowly
back before there were judgements or
voices I was scared of because you
followed them like it was God
inside your mind.

I never ever thought my thoughts would
submit for one second to the idea of
starting over.

Is it possible?
Can I erase what I called you and forget
how you didn't listen to my warnings
and still move on with you?

'Cause I remember when you said
you were turning over like a hopeful
choice.
I needed more than that.
I needed for you to cry out like an
oceanic wind and tell me how much
I really did go through,
watching you destroy yourself
in 'angelic' relationships.

Talking is hard.
These conversations that I feel may
be given to me by some sort of fox-hole
wind I never turned around to see before.

I want to be the better me.
I want to forgive you and know you forgive
too.

I want to redirect my intentions,
let us realize the past was jumbled
and confused but that our hearts don't
have to be anymore.

We still have time....

*Just a freewrite. September 8, 2012 at 4:26 pm.

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  • 12 years ago

    by Darren

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  • 12 years ago

    by Chelsey

    Gasp*....maryannneee what is thiisssss??

    Omg I love your free writes to death, I was just told that some poems can't be broken down, and I feel like this was one of them. If I were to show you each stanza that blew me away, I might as well just paste your whole poem here lol

    What I loved about this most is every stanza, every thought, had such an amazing metaphor, where usually id find poems to be kind of, how do you say..."too much" when there is an abundance of metaphors, I didn't feel that way about this. I actually quite liked the randomness to it, the mixture of of metaphors because it was like a mixture of emotions..

    Awesome awesome write!! :)

  • 12 years ago

    by Courageous Dreamer

    I may know what you're speaking of in this piece. The friendship you were talking to me about? Like I said I'm sure everything will be fine and everything will be built back together. I can understand how conversations may be a bit different now and maybe awkward, but I feel like things will change, of course all with time.

    Your title is so fitting, & I love how you used the sound of the ocean to weave in more meaning, as if this will lead you in the right direction.

    Very much so a free write, but this is the best kind of poetry, it allows you to just be yourself and let everything out.

    Well done!

  • 12 years ago

    by Britt

    This poem has such a different feel than your usual poems... the whole tone really just breaks my heart. Usually I hear a bit of the optimism from you but this just doesn't have me hopeful. Was this a challenge or a frustration? OH duh your note says free write. lol

    I love that you repeated talking is hard - it definitely can be, especially if you have to discuss your feelings, and perhaps will feel invalidated, or said person hurt you and you feel they will ridicule you for these thoughts. Or confrontation. Either of those options really suck, and I think you led the reader to strongly feel that, even if they think it's not really a hard thing for them to do.

    This poem definitely got me thinking, and it's something I will read again in a different mood and see if I feel differently about it. Wonderful!

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