A Forest Found Me

A forest found me,

Dazed and lying on the ground,

It found me,

I saw, but heard no sound.

 

Cold gripped me tighter,

And ice crystals formed from leaves,

Fear gripped me tighter,

But all I felt was peace.

 

Black swirls formed in the sky,

Stars fell down near my face,

Blue and white swirls joined the sky,

Creating looks as intricate as lace.

 

I thought I was alone

Until a red deer peered out,

It thought it was alone,

Until it found me out.

 

We walked closer but stopped,

Arrows hit their marks,

We moved closer but stopped,

Arrows pierced our hearts.

 

 You’d think we’d have fallen,

But we flew.

You were sure we’d have fallen,

But we knew.

 

Onwards to the rising sun,

Who looked like crystal and power,

Together to the rising sun,

Watched atop a tower.

 

But atop was where I froze,

The shadows found me out.

The top was where I froze,

The forest cut me out.

 

But where they left me was the sea,

Where I could just sit and be,

I was left in the sea,

To experience other company.

Reviews

[Mekki Amel]

Thank you, Alysa! It's a piece that's been exploding in my mind, to say the least and I'm rather excited about how it came out!

[Alysa Salzberg]

A very interesting poem, with a very unusual repitition.

[Mekki Amel]

Thanks, Alex! I thought of it while I was thinking of how things arent always as they seem. Bad things arent always a bad thing and vice versa. When I was thinking it over, I felt alot of colours take over. That's what brought it together.

Thank you for the review! :)

[Alex Thomas]

I really like the language of this poem. The AB rhyme really got my attention too. The meaning is almost ambiguous to me. It seems you can interpret this a few different ways.