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Screaming shatters the night.
It is me, caught in a dream,
trapped;
by the cold steel knife
that cut my heart into pieces
and left me weeping, dying on the ground.
The ground,
that is where I found her dead that night
it seems so much like a dream;
no, the pain is too raw for that. Feeling trapped,
that cruelly sharpened knife,
her bloody pieces
My sisters’ death left my life in pieces,
my heart died that night on the ground.
Now I stumble blindly in the night,
wishing I could, but never waking from this dream.
I truly am trapped.
If only I too could end it all with a knife.
Why do you look at this knife
and judge? You have not tried to pick up the pieces.
Your life was not thrown on the ground
nor were your dreams destroyed in the night.
Don’t judge until you’ve lost your dream
or fallen in another’s grave and been trapped.
But I don’t want to remain forever trapped
I want to be free of the curse of the knife
I need your help to pick up the pieces
And get up out of the ground
I want to dance freely in the night
And be able to say I too have a dream
Maybe that is only a dream
Flying for a moment, only to be once more trapped
Forever walking on the edge of a knife
Between life and a life in pieces
,but I have to try. I can’t stay on the ground
Because then I’ll never know the freedom of the night.
Will you help me bury the knife in the ground tonight? Will your love free me from being trapped, and allow me to pick up the pieces? Or will you also, destroy my dream?
- by Jozhuwah Ben Zaiden |
- Poetry And Lyrics
- | Submitted on 06/01/2010 |
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- Title: Dreaming
- Artist: Jozhuwah Ben Zaiden
- Description: This is a sestina ( poem w/ 6 stanzas and repetition of 6 key words, and 7th stanza containing all the words in a few sentences) about a girl whose sister committed suicide.
- Date: 06/01/2010
- Tags: dreaming death hope
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Comments (2 Comments)
- Jozhuwah Ben Zaiden - 06/11/2010
- Thank you. I put what I'm feeling into my writing, and it just comes out as my thoughts. Writing for me isn't just a hobby or passion, but also an outlet.
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- AngelLips96 - 06/11/2010
- that poem has very strong feeling and you are such a strong writer i was mesmerized by your words.
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