Fire and Ice
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
Without a cue… you enter like a shadow
A pin drops amidst the day’s affairs
Like a pebble in the ocean although, it seems
We know it not unseen forces interplay
Create a thrust away from the quiet mood
Following in the spaces between my pride
And deepest fears and i …trapped
With nowhere to hide caught inside
This room in the open space
Balanced like a tear welling in my eyes
It’s falling from my face …sets in motion
The tidal wave of emotion built up after many years
Of gained/lost opportunities your patience ended… Chances to suspend the load
Release the loads of pain which strikes now
Like a hurricane as the avalanche of angry words
Breaks the wall of silence with changing tides…
i lose it all, A sobbing whisper can be heard
A prayer for the wounds to be heal
Amidst the images a wave of seething rage
My S.O.S. to heaven …seems so surreal
Against the shadows of the night
Exploding echoes strike like lightning
What’s left of my heart ignites
My life reserves energies …fade softly
Hopelessly drain away into the nether
A lone wolf howls at the moon
Wailing upwards in a lonesome tune
Answered after a while by others
In the distant hills …so far away
A conversation which goes on for hours
Or so it seems. Is all this just a crazy dream?
They must be lost memories of good old days
Seem like they hear the locomotive coming
Its whistle strikes plaintive notes fading to whispers
Ends sudden as lost hope…as if it’s gone forever
After the last roll of thunder fades
A quiet whisper returns …the anger melts away
We talk softly, embrace …kiss the pain goodnight
And drift away to sleep …as if the fight
We almost had was gone without a trace
Its energies displaced …yet not erased
Just another day
To balance the inequalities
Of life
C2
Copyright ©2023 CEF2
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Written on 2019
Submitted by Charles2 on August 20, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,944 |
Words | 426 |
Stanzas | 44 |
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