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Title: One Step Forward at a Time
Author: Pegasus22
Date Submitted: 1/24/2008

 
Poem: I am haunted by the past
It's faces and textures.
The moments unspoken that
Create tension below the surface
For the days and hours afterwards.

I thought that I could frogleap
It's spiny gnarled wise fingers.
Move beyond the moment that I
Remember everything and leap trusting.

But while we do not live in the past
It lives on in us.
And I need to reconcile myself.
Find a way to live out its edicts.

I'm not manic anymore but I still
Suffer from insomnia.
I'm not creatively fluent anymore
But I still keep a jar of paintbrushes.

I made it through a year and 24 days
And flirted with the idea of
Going back and hanging off the edge
With my constant echoes of felted corners.

The earnestness of driving this moment
Into the calm future
Is dreadful. What I need to capture
From my past is that other me who skirts braver....