Bare

Beneath layers of transparent material

Lies a being beating for this life

Thinking of those dreams

No sun could break its form

Sometimes in tender smiles

This familiar feeling would pass by

Beneath attempts at a cover

The lantern within lights up the dark

Through moments of pain scars reside

Tranquil soul sit tightly for another day to pass

Beneath the face exists an inner child

Walking through the trees roaming free

So make me laugh if not for seconds

As the being within longs to fly another time

Swinging through the distant cloud

Drawing circles on the sand 

Opening up a chest of innocent secrets 

Looking at the world in bright stars

Seeing the beauty that often resides

Calm is this world existing on the veins of a leaf

Calling out for nature to wake 

As trees ruffle disposing of yesterday's sorrow

Looking out into a beautiful place

Layers dropped to the floor

Reviews

[Robert Wallace]

Tranquil soul sit tightly for another day to pass...this line describes peace of self in a way I had never thought of it before. The beauty of this is that the observer in this poem is aware of their own observation in real time...question and answer..call and just as in a musical piece, response within one true moment of inner sight. All this, in a brief few beautiful words. Not just well written...well understood. This is the reason poets are true writers of reality...Thanks.

[B]

Thank you Robert :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

we drop layers of ourselves to the floor...we expose our weaknesses, our sorrows...we wear our autumns on our sleeve...the transparency of being honest...
beautiful words here.
j.

[B]

Thank you Jacob :)