He stands atop the ladder
Swaying gently in the breeze
The little girl holds still
To ensure he does not fall
Watching as he reaches up
Taller now than the trees
Softly, gently, carefully
A net so long in hand
He plucks a little bit of cloud
And rain trickles from the sky
A drop landing on her nose
Her face wrinkling with glee
The ladder sways with the wind
He motions her to focus
And reaches up to pluck again
The clouds shift farther West
Now just beyond his reach
Climbing down, they chase the clouds
To collect a little more
Tonight he'll have her mother sew
The cloud into pillows
They'll sleep so well dreaming sweet
With their heads in the
To be honest with you
I want to hug the girl that I love
Until everything's better
And we can breathe again if only sigh
I want to lie down in bed
Curled beneath the blankets
While mommy and daddy
Chase the monsters away
The way they used to when I was five
But life is not so nice
Despite this we must stand tall
Look our foes in the eyes
And lie saying "I am not scared"
All the while shaking to our very core
Not knowing if we'll even make it through alive
Years tormented by the mind
Slow with madness driven blind
Arm held out in offering
Voices dead quietly sing
Gleaming dark while shining bright
Plunged the knife into skin tight
Glass heart repaired
With sugar water
More fragile now
Than was before
Held gently in
The wary hands
An eye kept close
Keeping lookout
Sees the dangers
But does not hide
Broken glass held
For winds to shape
The sun rains down
On tired faces
Heart once shattered
Never the same
But will love on
Despite the pain
Soon forgotten
All the fresh pain
Two faces meet
In promised kiss
Two times a day the dead birds sing
Through empty halls their voices ring
And Death smiles to hear their cries
He promised life delivered lies
Two times a day the dead bird crows
Was tricked to die and sadly knows
A rather dark poem about a rabbit by Galialay, literature
Literature
A rather dark poem about a rabbit
Run home rabbit as fast you can
Your family's dead by hunter's hound
The kids are gone ran fast for fear
The burrow burned to ashy ground
Your wife taken for lucky feet
Sorry to say her luck ran out
Run home rabbit as fast you can
They're after you and will not stop
The water in the kettle's on
And fire burns to make your stew
Snapping as your heart races
The hounds have you trapped in corner
Run home rabbit as fast you can
Your family's dead your time is up
The kids are gone caught up in nets
The burrow burned to halt escape
Your wife taken to feed hunters
Sorry to say your luck ran out
Days long ago
There was a seed
Ignorant to
The world beneath
The forest green
Promised great life
Seen all around
Trees touching skies
Dropped from high boughs
Onto hard ground
Was trampled deep
By all who passed
Their hardened soles
Shoved the poor seed
Beneath the earth
Without a care
Let all alone
Without the sun
Quickly forgot
The star's sweet warmth
When rainstorms came
And drowned the soil
Was thought for sure
To be the end
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The little seed
Grew sick of such
The waters stayed
And threatened life
Want now for air
The seed's shell broke
And water seeped
Drowning the seed
Pushing with all
It had to give
There is a room
A secret place
Deep within me
I guard it well
And store in it
My true being
So scared and weak
Easily hurt
For lock and key
With walls of steel
It will not fall
Nor ever crack
The door sealed tight
For years so long
Like a princess
Inside tall tower
Kept from the world
At great distance
Yet even so
You found a way
To break the vault
And made way to
The inner core
No easy feat
Stubborn headed
Prepare yourself
I hope you know
What waits ahead
She wears her heart
Upon blind sleeves
Your reward is
This sphere of glass
I call my heart
It's been so long
Since last was held
By one not I
Please guar
Writing a story
In my perception
Is kind of like
Stumbling upon
A stranded though
Colorful bit of
Fabric or scrap
As time goes on
I find more scraps
Of different colors
And new design
Some sides match up
With others senseless
My duty to make
A blanket from these
I take up thread
In my bent needles
Begin working slowly
To make edges meet
The ends are loose
Sometimes frayed so
Defiantly though
I keep this work up
Until I behold
A finished blanket
My blanket is lumpy
With forced stitches
And holes abound
From mismatched scraps
Some see my blanket
And turn in disgust
It lacks the coherence
Of a professional sew
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