Above the clouds a longing takes part, my heart
bleeds while playing with a broken branch in the
evening.

It’s hard to forgive ourselves, while clinging onto
remnants of an impossible past. The sombre sky
and languid flowers, everything’s a muted shade
like a matt photograph in a dimly lit space.

A few years ago I fell apart though in the process
of building myself back up, I learned that amidst
worldly struggles you are allowed to leave a few
broken pieces behind, you are allowed to dream
and become the person that you design yourself
to be.

The calm crepuscular hours, I knelt and poured
my woes into a babbling brook, feeling that the
world was too much with us and yet unfamiliar.

As the last light slips away my eyes open to the
silence of the universe, I’m reminded of beauty,
of hope as the dark comes to write its chapter.

Soon cold and unfeeling rain was falling, above
the clouds a longing takes part, my heart bleeds
while playing with a broken branch in evening.

 

Photo credits: Crepuscule Heinrich Kuhn

I chose to write inspired by “The world is too much with us” by
William Wordsworth.

Posted for “Kerry’s Challenge” @ Real Toads

Posted on the Poetry Pantry @ Poets United