About Wanting Things You can Never Have

Posted by Gino Bjorn on Oct 5, '07 2:39 PM for everyone

poem about wanting something you can never have



A DIFFERENT DAY

A million eyes on the gallows of his mind

A million ways to collapse confined

To hold in his mouth a desperate sigh

Of misfortunes and hollow goodbyes

The scent that clings to his nose entice

What once was firm now his heart defies

And his yearning that hid beneath

Turns a dagger off to cut the sheath

And to the sweat of his palms retire

A vague pattern of tainted desires

Hold his breathe just so he’d find

A different vision in his mind

Notes that rest under his drawers

Conceals what he discreetly implores

And words they sleep calm beneath his teeth

Shelters his heart through retreat

Eyes grew wary with his empty stare

Through that box of frigid air

Blurs blind with his every gasp

Of his warm breathe against that glass

Staggers blindly enshrouded with folly

Songs of clandestine won’t leave him be

He wishes nothing more than the boon

Of his madness withering soon

Succumbed to what infectious grins arrest

Buries a stake through his broken chest

And lie still ‘til the lingering chill

Has consumed what his heart has spilled

Soon he hopes…these things conclude

And his crafty pain he would elude

Forty winks and batting lashes pray

That tomorrow would wake a different day

-Ginobjorn