At Least Lauri Still Has Hope At Her Disposal

Lock my loving Lauri in a sentimental squeeze

While bicentennial lights erupt behind the trees

Sparks rain and smoke remains and marries with aromas

No curfew 'til fall at Purdue pursuing a diploma

Sign the card and ice the cake and smile for your sake

Wearily wave and pretend to be brave in your departure's wake

Who'll walk me through each dreadful crisis

In dire desperation with my worthless devices

I'm a worm and weed with too many needs

A leech who feeds off your unguarded heart 'til it bleeds

I have failed with days gone stale and dreams derailed

Your soul was unfettered when the letter appeared in the mail

No longer caught and controlled in the pull of my black hole

As eyes scan the span of each hall with hope for a lofty goal

Taking in another breath of terrible toxic fumes

Signalling doom those grey and murderous plumes

Not clever enough to sever ties with scrutinizing eyes

For weak endeavors I'm trapped forever and never to rise

Blocks of time defined by designs to quietly follow

Praise feels hollow yet I solemnly swallow

Consume the fuel while I screw with my tool

With the cold commitment to the cruelest rules

As though to mask the blandness of my tasks

With carefully crafted comments in the off chance anyone asks

 

 

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

It's been quite a while since I finished a poem. In fact this was one which I just wanted to get done because honestly I tend to feel a trifle useless if I'm not creating something.

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SSmoothie's picture

Ah yes my kind of cruel

Ah yes my kind of cruel irony. I guess I have lived a life of giving believing taking was for the needy and here I am finding my self sudden very needy. Huh huh hhaha haahahahah! Affections never travel back when they only go one way. the world owes me one hell of a lot my own black hole seems a write off! I love the drama of this piece it resonates with my own! Hugss 


Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS    

"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."

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Thank you very very much,

Thank you very very much, Ssmoothie. I often feel lke the needy person who's afraid to come across as being that person. I suppress it most all of the time. But I often confess it in my writing though.

bishu's picture

Congratulations on your 50th post my friend :)

Congratulations on your 50th post my friend :)

Broken hearts only trusted time can mend

Quirky computer mouse difficult to mend

Logging in n logging out is a daily tirade

The black devil grins at my desperate peril

Maybe I'll trash the PC and pick up a quill {#emotions_dlg.laughing} 

My PC mouse is troublesome.It walks its own gait

Waiting for Postpoems please wait !!!! Laughing


©bishu 

 

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Thank you very very much,

Thank you very very much, Bishu. That's been happeneing to me too. This site seems to take much long to load than it used to. Here I linger tapping fingers. Taking too long to load the graphics. Too much traffic slows the process. Measuing time by dripping faucets. :)