Bend

"You cant stop the future, you can't rewind the past, the only thing you can do is press play." ~Jay Asher

The grains of youth have begun to thin

As all agree; our sin

As all fear; our sorrow

Therefore patience for adolescence runs low.

From a bloody fountain I refuse to draw

Innocence; outlaw

To sacrifice we march

So we tread lightly in the dark.

But strong friendships do not bend

Even as the raging storms of our desolate minds extend

From the pit of good and pain;

Mysteries become the nectar in our restraint

As we brave the war; torture our resolve

As we fight the torrent; we will evolve

From the edge of mercy where we hung blind

To the crest of benevolence where we're unconfined.

From the passivity we've escaped

Our melancholy has been reshaped

Forms cast; a cacophony of white noise

To replace this newly molded clay with hardened poise.

(A relapse may bite at your tongue)

But those demons, we have since learned to overcome.

Author's Note

However abstract this may be its a poem about growing up and learning to live with the challenges you face. My first assignment of the year. ^^

I thought the captcha seemed a little funny for this...it was "saneness" which I think growing up includes absolutely none of.... :P

Reviews

[Tai Ryens]

I don't believe this is of the traditional growing up method, but rather by the measurement of recovery patterns whilst fighting an addiction (hence the relapse); another aspect that kinda strengthens my perspective of the poem would be the portrayal of a war towards the mid-end. It could also portray the particular mental health of its respectable addiction level; from thinking the addiction cannot end (But strong friendships do not bend) to the relapse to the end in which the demons were overcome. For if I were to take demons in the end into account if I measure it by age, then childhood would be the demon: when in fact it should be the angel of nostalgia (unless you hate kids). I liked this one.

[Riley Bray]

That's an interesting perceptive and using that mindset you're entirely correct haha. Thanks for the review Tai I'm glad you liked it!

[Amaya Sullivan]

You write some really good poems. You need to publish a book of them.

Keep Writing!

Amaya

[Riley Bray]

Thanks Amaya!