Letters

Though it doesn't sound like it, this was my way of getting over a break-up (sort of).

Do letters have significance?

Does one weigh more and considered

More important than the rest?

Does each have an individual

Meaning? Can something so

Seemingly insignificant that

Everyone can print them, be

So terrifying? One is haunting

Me. It's everywhere I go.

Nearly everyone and thing

That comes to be important

In my life seems to have

This letter in their title.

 

Do each mean something?

One, light and wonderous and

Another mysterious, telling

Of the meaning of thoughts

While others shriek and

Scare like some horrible fiend.

I pray not. For the haunting letter,

As well as all the others,

May preview each person

Preventing one from showing

Their true colors as I learn to

Fear those possessing one letter

While easily favoriting

Others who contain more

Pleasant letters. But please

Rip this fear of that letter

From my heart. What could

Such a fear mean?

 

This fear could however be a

Blessing. The letter may be a note

Of forewarning, an oracle urging

For the exclusion of anyone

Or thing that begins with that

Threatening mark. But should

One judge another based on a

Letter that has been shown to

Belong to those mentally instable?

No. No, that's insanity. A letter

Is a mere mark that makes the

Script used to communicate.

But letters communicate.

 

Oh yes, they do. If each letter

Didn't tell its own story how

Can they be combined in a reliable

Fashion? Yes, I know. I know it's

A story. It's of of troubling enigma.

The mark is a blood red caution sign.

I wish I'd have the pleasure

Of seeing kinder, softer letters.

Perhaps then I wouldn't have

To live in fear of those with

That Letter.

 

Each has their own story.

One only knows it if they

Have lived to experience

And come accustomed to

Each of their meanings which

Change on a person's preseption.

I know my ghost, though I have

Yet to find my heart. I understand

The power of a letter, though I

Have underestimated it. Now, I

Live in fear. The Letter is

Everywhere. It is in this very word.

Author's Note

If I successfully this without sounding like I'm full of faulty teenage angst, please tell me.

Reviews

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Wonderful questions to ponder on. I like this and how it is straight forward. Very well written. So much emotion involved.