Do not like to read

Pennyroyal Tea
Pennyroyal Tea Posts: 30
edited July 2006 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
I've been shaking this tree
I thought something pretty would fall down
but at my feet, I see only a big pile of leaves
Leaves are alright..
I could close this strange book
and never open it again
but there's a certain page I like to sleep within
Still, time is ticking, always ticking, hurting and helping
And now this spaceship that stole me into some hypnotic black hole
has stopped moving, my trance is broken in an instant
I observe my surroundings,
and remember why I never liked to read
"You, my love, are allowed to rot and to die and to live again more alive and incandescent than before"
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  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    I like this, PT! :) I particularily liked these lines:

    "I could close this strange book
    and never open it again
    but there's a certain page I like to sleep within"

    And I agree, sometimes you get so caught up in a story, that when you have to stop (especially in the middle of it), or you've finished it, and reality comes crashing back in, it's such a bummer! :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    i like it, too Pennyroyal

    a fascinating push/pull, isn't it?

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