Advertise Here
Want to advertise here? Get started for as little as $5
Every Now and Then, The World Breaks

Every Now and Then, The World Breaks

A Poem by Lily E. Lin

On windows, cracks line the edge of my vision,
Drawing spider-linked arrays, nets that connect,
And that destroy the picture I had thought 
Until this point, the world to be, in time, in place,
No matter. 

Every now and then, the known world
Loses something, a virtue, a once assumed to be fact
Disappeared. As if a color, a hue of in between
Shades has been sucked out and you are left feeling
Rainbows are a lie and white light, not quite so white
Something, quite possibly over night, simply removed
From the palette and everything left, not quite,
Right. 

Every now and then, the known life
Becomes unknowable, a stranger to its host, a
Foreigner in one's own native land. And 
Floundering, we play along to a script lost,
Mouth ad-libbing to voices no longer audible,
And inside a sinking feeling, that everything is
A lie.

On worlds, cracks lay its foundations,
From the edge of what we can see to the edge,
Of what we can believe. Lines, spider-linked arrays,
Nets, fill breaking the make-believe connections. And
Beneath the surface, every now and then, the world,
Breaks.

© 2012 Lily E. Lin


My Review

Would you like to review this Poem?
Login | Register




Share This
Email
Facebook
Twitter
Request Read Request
Add to Library My Library
Subscribe Subscribe


Stats

240 Views
Added on January 14, 2012
Last Updated on January 14, 2012

Author

Lily E. Lin
Lily E. Lin

Berkeley, CA



About
I suppose I should talk a bit about myself. Writing has long been one of my outlets of expression. I write to vent. That said, I enjoy the intricacies of the word, though it may be a double edged s.. more..

Writing
Shake Shake

A Poem by Lily E. Lin


Sky High Sky High

A Poem by Lily E. Lin