Late Night Muse (a poem)

Late Night Muse

Written September 11th, 2011

I watch them

I see them all

Lonely, heartbroken, and defeated

It’s in their posture

As they walk down the hall

I’ve been there

Felt it all

I’ve been in that fall

They ask me

How do I do it?

How do I smile,

How do I keep going?

They say

It isn’t worth it

Not at all

It just ends up in tears

They always fall

I smile because I’m alive

I keep going

‘Cuz I know I gotta strive

I have a brain to reason

I have a heart to feel

And I have a body to act

Sometimes I reason wrong

Sometimes my heart is broke

Sometimes my actions haunt me

But life is short and sweet

Like all the other good things

It goes by too fast

I don’t have time to build a house

In the past.

I fall down all the time

I get up and brush off

And do my best

To lift others up

Out of that suffocating dust

You can sulk

You can cry

The sun’s still gonna rise

The clock’s still gonna tick

With or without you

You can be miserable

Right up to your demise

I choose to smile through the tears

To grow taller

And become wise

Call me a rebel

Because I make cities out of rubble

Love arrives

Love leaves

We cry because we lost something precious

If it was truly precious

Why do you focus on the leave

Instead of trying to find

Another arrive?

Life is here,

Then it’s gone

It’s a crazy ride

Of good and bad

Happy and sad

Are you gonna saddle up?

Or let it drag you in the dust

And drop you in the grave?

I have a brain to reason

I have a heart to feel

And I have a body to act

I mess up

Because I’m human

I choose to smile through the tears

To grow taller

And become wise

Like all the other good things

Life goes by too fast

And I don’t have time to build a house

In the past.



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Don't be afraid to leave comments! :) Sorry for my absence on my blog... I've been focusing on my novel and when I do that my poetry tends to take a break.

This style is a little different from my usual poem, its more to the point and uses blunter language instead of sounding pretty and eloquent. I think it works for the point I'm trying to get across though :)