Poetry

If only I loved a little less hard.

Did not stay up at night,

Worried that I hugged the wrong person

Or smiled at someone who talked badly about me when I left the room.

If only I loved a little less hard.

I have very mixed feelings about this poem, which I wrote when I was 9. Please enjoy, or at least humor yourself when Little Me rhymed "need" with "feed"!  - Calico Frost

Animals and Equal

I take steps.

Tiny steps.

One

           Step 

                       At

I am tired.

I want to write a poem

but I am too tired

and I don't quite have the

energy

to write something with quality

or actually

sounds good

so I am waiting for my

i can only imagine the salt of the sea and

the schools of tuna that end up in my bowl

they swim through the eternity that melts into the sky

surviving the harsh summers

mating through the comforting winters

Rain is like the dripping memories 

A mud puddle is like confusion 

A dream is like a trance 

Fog is like clouded thoughts 

A mountain is like a deck of cards 

Do you know how many minutes I save for you

So we can be together?

Do you know how it feels

When you throw them out

For other things?

Do you know how it feels

To never feel like you're good enough

Busy as a clock 

Happy as the moon 

Big as a yell 

Scary as darkness 

Gentle as the stars 

Fast as time 

Loud as a conversation spoken without words 

The tree line grows nearer but I feel nothing but fear

Fear of what lays beyond the tree line 

Beyond safety 

Beyond light 

Maybe even beyond reality 

Hate

Is ignorance:

It’s when eyes

Skim past the story of scars,

Focusing rather on the fact

They’re there;

They let the jagged curves

“How could you ever love me?” she asked.

Look at my skin, charred.

My face, scarred.

My body, branded by people’s opinions of me.

“How could you ever love me?”

Sisyphean poetry - a repeat of the same set of lines where every time a line gets added or taken away it starts at the beginning again - a poem that can never end and never be entirely complete