December's Doors

Child of winter....

December calls

And lurks behind every door

She is silent

With secret allure

All of my desperation

Was generated within her arms

She carries and cradles me

Through every other month

She is my chaperone

Ushering in my existence

On her clipboard

She tallies each minute and moment

It is all time that I owe her

She is the broker of lucid dreams and hope

Long ago I pawned my childhood with her

I took my borrowed money

And bought a little more time

With every paycheck I make payments

On her price-gouged interest

I travel through the years in perpetual unease

She will not tell me when my loan is due

December

She has ice-cold toes

And even colder fingers

With which she grips my thoughts

My every idea belongs to her

For I have nothing else to offer up as collateral

How I dread December

She is so dark

Despite her white cloaks

And festive celebrations

With futile efforts, I seek her love and approval

But she refuses to be the mother I never had

She is winter’s child

And goes by many other names

She does not confine herself

To the thirty-one days with which we define her

I can see around her mirrored image

To the jagged peaks of truth

Doors, as far as the eye can see, litter her landscape

I fight the urge to try them all

For surely I would go mad as each one refused to open

Except the last one

My exit to which she wears the key around her neck

Apparently I have not made enough payments

So I drag myself off to the job I hate

December’s bitter cold cackles

Echoing in my ears

Reviews

[Kimberly "Melody" Carne..]

Ok, just need to know one thing....so what's the name of your book, where can I get it and so on!

[JourneyBlu]

My book is titled Whispers of Never and here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/Whispers-Never-A-Collection-Poetry/dp/1469156032/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346254484&sr=8-1&keywords=whispers+of+never Again I am honored that you are enjoying my writing, there is nothing more satisfying than connecting with another soul through such personal expressions of the self. Thank you so much!