Thursday, January 28, 2016

Trauma

We sprouted from trauma, even broken homes, with models as addicts. The fever churned, to morph a flame, to pull at brilliant souls; but ever to wrestle,
to love for parents, to excuse the trauma. We had dreams,
to watch them implode—into dynasties of sorrow. We grew
familiar with tall tales, even apologies, to repeat a silent
cycle; as vocal as mirrors, chiding affectation, to emote
composure. How for a child, to become a young man, sought
after for solutions! It happens in homes, to replace a father,
burdened with pressures; where a young lady drinks
—while a young man smokes, the two to meet through trauma; but what of faith, a solid style, chiseled into a potential monster. It’s ever resilience, that deep in prayer, for eyes to swell with flame. We push and pull and live to die—growing through webs, to die for living. We sprouted from trauma, stressing strings, a motif for a soul; we live the requiem, to serenade sorrow, that closer to heartache. So more to arts, the torn expressions, a prelude to therapy; where minds sing a chorus, to replay a cinema—to see for mother, an image as father.

The opera is rain, seeping into soil, a soul as a garden; but what for trauma, to hear it whistle, as intense as a symphony. We sprouted from pain, the raptures of turmoil, a legacy of trauma; where mother died, to want for love, the reason for kids; while father fled, without return, to live a stranger; we find for tempos, to ward-off demons, to breathe each breath. It’s more the hypersensitive, dwelling in five parts, a human as a quintet. We perish this light, to see for trauma, to watch our reflection; where others chide, for seeing the sights—of one aware of most angles. We die a fugue, to raise a rose, to feel for spotted. It’s ever there, the favors of parents, to live it like majesty.      

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