The Return

August 23, 2015 November 25, 2018

The Return short poem

Photo by Richard Heyes


Hours of waiting in sticky, crowded hubs
Of watching my back for thieves
Of trying not to float away on the seas of boredom
Has finally come to this.

I’m sitting, soaring, the blue sky underneath
Confined to my body’s limits.
Now praying that sleep comes soon
As we creep over the clouds to home.

I’m here, I’m there,
Who knows where I am now?
It’s morning, it’s evening, my body doesn’t know.
But I do know where we’re going.

Forward.
Like a mighty steel condor,
Taking twigs to a faraway nest
Half a planet away.

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My muse is like an excitable dog. It catches sight of totally random things and starts yapping and running around and wagging its tail and WILL NOT STOP until I write a poem about it.My poetry is sometimes based on personal experience and sometimes on other things. Aside from that, I enjoy video games (My favourite game series is Mass Effect) and the popular television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
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