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Sunday, March 25, 2012

[ECHOES OF A LONELY MAN]


[ECHOES OF A LONELY MAN]
TOPIC CHOSEN BY Pearl HappytobeNappy...I CHANGED THE PICTURE BUT I KEPT THE CONCEPT I THINK.
THE MUSIC FOR THIS PIECE...
http://youtu.be/h0Uqu_9zNZY


ON THESE CLIFFS THAT SEEM TO RISE AS IF FROM NOTHING...THE BLACKNESS REACHES OUT AND GRASPS AT THE MAN THAT IS ME.

SO MANY ARE THE TROUBLES THAT I HAVE THROWN INTO THESE PITS...GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN...LIVES OF MINE THAT I HAVE SOUGHT TO LEAVE BEHIND.

SCREAMS THAT REFLECT BACK AT I...SHATTERING ECHOES THAT SPLASH ACROSS MY SKIN IN PRISMS OF GLITTERING HURT.

VOICES OF ALL THAT I THOUGHT I HAD BEEN RID OFF.

WHY DO WE ALWAYS SEEM TO BE RUNNING WHEN WHAT WE ARE RUNNING FROM IS AN ILLUSION?

A FIGMENT OF A TROUBLED MIND LIVING IN TROUBLED TIMES.

WHY CANT I LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND?

MY TEARS COULD BRING LIFE TO A PLANET IN THE MOST PARCHED AREA OF SPACE...TO A DEAD TREE IN A DESERT OF SAND.

HOW LONG WOULD I FALL IF I CAST MYSELF OUT INTO THE AIR?

A MINUTE...AN ETERNITY???

HOW LONG WOULD MY CRIES ECHO IN THIS DESOLATE PLACE THAT HAS BECOME MY SOUL?

WOULD ANYONE CARE FOR I HAVE DONE A WHOLE LOTTA DIRT ON THIS TRAIL OF STRUGGLE AND STRIFE...SLEPT WITH ANOTHER MANS WIFE...BURNED SO MANY BRIDGES.

WHY DO I ALWAYS RETURN TO THESE CLIFFS? 

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