Standing Still

So fragile, we live our lives—

Imperative routine controls us

As we forget the ones we love.

For this world we live is fluid;

As soon as we find ourselves

In the midst of happiness

It is torn away.

For a single second

The world seems right,

But before we have time to smile

Our loved ones are torn away.

Pieces of ourselves fade—

We begin to feel like broken soldiers

Lining the bottom of a toy box.

We convince ourselves, tomorrow’s the day:

We tell somebody we love them,

We step towards our dreams,

We live like we always wanted.

Someday tomorrow won’t come,

And we will be left with regret

Or with a smile on our face.

But either way, our eyes fade grey.

Life isn’t what we’ve expected,

But it can still be all we wanted.

     DannYetman

www.yetmanpoetry.blogspot.com

Tonight Alone

Tonight there will be no fairy tale endings,

No moonlit walks through the park.

I’m left alone instead, to beat myself up—

Forged memories falling apart,

The desire I harbor spilt in ink.

I am stuck imagining life with you here,

I want to tell you how much it hurts

To feel like a mistake.

The agony I put myself through,

Trying to find precise flaws

Is slowly tearing me apart.

And with each day I become more confused

Because all I want to do is speak

But you are not around—

Even if you were, I would remain quiet

For that seems to be who I am.

I hate living in this shadow,

All I wanted was to speak.

     DannYetman

www.yetmanpoetry.blogspot.com

Strangers Walk

These streets don’t feel like home,

When I march upon them alone.

The ghosts that walk with me

Are memories of our youth;

I think we were both naïve,

Or perhaps we just didn’t want to think

That someday we would be torn apart.

I think it meant more to me,

Because you seem to be doing fine

And I’m still wandering alone—

I still don’t know where I’m headed

But I’ll search the whole world.

We walk the streets as strangers do,

Our voices foreign and faces concealed.

On separate paths we march,

Bound to never meet again.

       DannYetman

www.yetmanpoetry.blogspot.com