The Incomplete Puzzle

A recreation of a poem I wrote a few years ago. It will never match the original, but I hope that I have captured the essence of what I wrote before.

In ages past and ages new

The grass gets wet with morning dew,

And little children run and play

So gay and free, enjoying their day.

But teenagers the rotten lot

So discontent with what they've got

Can't have such fun like yesteryear 

Or study hard, their biggest fear.

You see life is all about being cool

And taking drugs and breaking rules.

No drug is impossible for them to get

Not drinking, smoking, drugs and yet

I fell there is a giant void

That few of us can try avoid.

We are a puzzle incomplete

Our hearts desire can not be seen

We break our puzzle, become undone

Take a piece and put it in a larger one

The larger puzzle conformity

The smaller piece, our identity.

The age has passed, no longer new

And on the grass I still see dew.

I can barely hear children's sound

Maybe because I'm older now

My teeth are yellow from the cigs I smoked

My lungs tar black, more than I'd hoped

I see my life as memories

That have led me to my destiny.

But was it always set in stone

That i was meant to die alone?

Or could I have acted differently

And lived my life more happily?

These thoughts run circles in my head

And as I lay dying in my bed

I await the toll of the bell

To transport me, from this hell to Hell.

Author's Note

All comments and feedback appreciated

Reviews

[marcus]

Thought provoking, I liked it, a dying man's remorse.

[creative Marie]

An Incredible poem that cries a sad truth. Often I think about time and how much happier I might have been as a child, and the people around me who have anxiety or depression or do drugs. but we also cannot dwell on the losts of our of past, good or bad, for I have wasted much of my time doing so rather than enjoying the present hour. Hell will only continue to deepen if we continue to feed it our misery.

[Ken Simm.]

This has a deceptive simplicity. It rings through the years giving apparently simple truths but with words that hit home to a majority. I like it immensely.