Release

Thu, 03/05/2015 - 19:24 -- bcsmith

Location

It’s the same exact spot

Where it happened.

Walking past it everyday

I cannot help but imagine

Another way it could have gone.

The crashing is silenced.

 

I arrive at my house and it is silent.

That day, that spot

Haunts me and it’s not gone

From my thoughts, but what happened

Is only a figment of my imagination?

And so I begin to write everyday.

 

The first day was the hardest but everyday

It gets easier until my brain is silenced

And emptied. I can no longer imagine

A memory, now only a spot

In the past, like it never happened

Like it’s almost gone.

 

Yet, the feeling isn’t gone.

I still feel it deep in my soul everyday

Sneaking up, like it just happened.

And the emotion cannot be silenced.

So I return to this deadly spot

To sit, breathe, and imagine

 

That it is a lovely place. Imagine

That the burn and sour taste is gone.

I leave my thought letters in the spot

And visit them every day.

Now the pounding has been silenced

By what surrounds the place that it happened.

 

I believe that what happened

Will be stopped again by others imagination.

By a release of the silence.

We will create and then gone

Will be the crushing pain everyday

Found in each and every spot.

 

 In my spot I no longer see what happened

I see a silenced pain as I walk by everyday

And I imagine that all the world’s pain will soon be gone.

Poetry Terms Demonstrated: 

Comments

Additional Resources

Get AI Feedback on your poem

Interested in feedback on your poem? Try our AI Feedback tool.
 

 

If You Need Support

If you ever need help or support, we trust CrisisTextline.org for people dealing with depression. Text HOME to 741741