Poems from etherealrose
"I have a solar-powered confidence and a battery operated smile. My hobbies include - editing my life story, hiding behind a metaphor, and convincing my shadow that I am someone worth following."
-Rudy Francisco, The Honest Poem
My year in a poem, a few
sentences, a few stanzas,
seemed, seems impossible
but nothing is impossible.
So here I go, here it is.
It all...
you'd listen to the same song
over and over again
until you hated it,
until it became just another song
in your playlist you'd always
skip...
"Hold on to me
Cause I'm a little unsteady" you said
Because what can you do
what else can you do
when you don't know
when you have no clue...
I.
I had this habit, this routine of
crossing out days in calendars
the second the clock would strike midnight,
with a red thick sharpie,...
I was wrong about you, me, us
You, me, us, what happened?
Was I in the wrong?
The wrong book
with the wrong boy?
Was it all right
to even...