Member Poem

UNTITLED POEM

Along with secret cigarettes
And the swapping of youthful tongues
The innocence of my youth was smashed,
Scattered like the stars in the sea
off the south coast of Spain

Then,
My crown glowed like the flame hued leaves
Of blowy Autumnal months,
Before the greyness of daily routine
Finally ground its way in

I remember you!

How I saw as I child
When I was way too busy working too hard
At Not working too hard
I Loved you then.
But through habit
My soul got crushed
Seeing shadows of what a child
Should see.
And in you now
I see something new
Bringing you, my parent,
to angry tears.

All those unfaithful
Unkind, adolescent years,
I look back on in Sadness
But I will rise,
from the sea
Reborn,
A Bodhisattva dream

Written by Clayton Spall