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Canvas
What I see
Is a beautiful wall is built
High and higher it goes
Stacking, building, growing
The higher up
The farther down
Those precious memories
Put into each and every brick
Each and every stone
It cracks
It crumbles
It fades
To think it would resist the coarse weather
It could had not he broken it
Every emotion put into each rock
He stood and watched
Every jumbled feeling
Created a rough surface
The holes that were filled even erode
The dust and dirt covered my eyes
As time goes on
The rain will wash away the pieces
The life of the wall would turn to grey
As a fire goes out and all that remains are ashes
The sky will always repair itself
As a new day awaits
The whole truth?
The entire truth?
Who knows
I was too busy building it
The only one with the answers
Is the one who witnessed it
My pain
My sweat
My efforts
Appears before me
On this great wall that will wear away
Gradually
Bit by bit
It hurts most to see it come down
The time feels like forever
Even when it is so short
Some pieces would still remain
Just a pile of memories
Experiences
If I use them correctly
They can become my strengths
Instead of my weakness
Look beyond the wall
The land is vast and endless
There are colors to be seen
More views
More experiences
Looking back
Everything can be nostalgic
But new life is given any time of day
Nature has covered the landscape
Of once was the present
The grey slowly fades away
But will never vanish
Think about it
Now
I can move onto a new creation
I needn’t repair the walls that once were
The river will clear
After the storm calms
Making the view serene
The crevices
The missing pieces
The flaws
Are what make it real
Never will a wall be perfect
Is why experiences are experiences
Experience to know my faults
The things I need to work on
Learning to smooth out the rough spots
Many walls will fail
Yet many will succeed
I don’t need to see it as a failure
I have to see it as a slight mistake
One of which I must learn from
Had I seen everything to be terrible mistake
The flowers will not bloom
The ruins will cause me to deteriorate
My mind, my soul
I would just lose it all
One day
I will be able to stand by these here ruins
Facing it
Without such sorrowfulness
Whether it be on the inside or the outside
Fresh new paint on a clean canvas
And experiences
That’s all it takes
For a new beginning
As long as I understand that
I can go on
Keeping regrets to a minimum
Knowing they can break me
The world is a cruel place
Just full of flaws
Through it though
People try to make it better
Even if they fail
They keep trying
Attempting
Through their knowledge
Through others’ experiences
And their own
All in all
The landscape is open to anything
Fate as it can be
Or simple spontaneous happenings
See as far as you possibly can
- by Trinity cream |
- Poetry And Lyrics
- | Submitted on 02/24/2009 |
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- Title: Canvas
- Artist: Trinity cream
- Description: Was originally titled Portrait, but I had a previous one.
- Date: 02/24/2009
- Tags: canvas
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Comments (2 Comments)
- Evalyne Peirs - 06/17/2009
- OMG i didn't know you wrote poetry
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- Monokuro No Yume - 02/27/2009
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It could use a little editing (I think I saw a couple tense changes, as well as some sentence fragments, and a sentence that ended up with two verbs and no sense to it) and it drags on a little, but I like that main idea behind it. I've always been a little fond of 'you can move on' kind of ideas.
Nothing horrible, but nothing tremendously brilliant either. 3/5. - Report As Spam