Find Learn Become: A Poem by Tommy Sheffield
Language: English
Published by iUniverse, 2016
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- Title
- Find Learn Become: A Poem by Tommy Sheffield
- Author
- Sheffield, Tommy
- Publisher
- iUniverse
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1491775181
- ISBN 13
- 9781491775189
- Item weight
- 288 grams
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Find Learn Become
A Poem
By Tommy SheffieldiUniverse
All rights reserved.
I. Fire
realize mortal life pure.
And then it all happened, helping me to the man that I am. To me, is
feel like terrible death wretched.
Burning skin turns raindrops tepid. This world is something I cannot endure.
Man / Mine / Others / I / We / She / You / Marissa / They / Heather / Anne / Us
are all dying. Everyone is dying.
I live to be nothing But who am I I'm just a A broken Viciously Laughably
more than my name. to complain? stain. pane. tame. sane.
are forgotten hopes
We almost our
have amongst dreams
(Static.) (Realization.) (Denial.)
Look, stands much! do you listen hear ?
there too Oh, how to as it burns away in front of you
Where again, few! it hurts love !
Come close to our folly.
When pyre fight all to smile while I around him.
a must for things at wonderfully
Soon man light good, to gaze die look away.
"I am hurt." He gives me a lecture. "I feel pain." He gives me pills. Like you know
what it's like. There are no words left to express what is severe. We live in extremity.
We bask in longevity. Nothingness is a fearful imagination we avoid at all costs.
Surrounded with comforts, you know nothing of pain.
Now imagine your entire family, dying all at once.
Two kinds of love, severed to nothing.
I sunlight your This fear,
think through lips to its fingers
the clouds smile in are gripped
world and its WAKE. round my
of you dusk. UP. You, chest, to
darling. The trembling smother the
You rain, heartbeat, love we
brought it stopped HOLD. held stubborn
me for ON. too long.
The lights of my life will be lost forever.
II. Mend
Chris,
I heard about the fire. Words cannot express how sorry I am for your loss. Your sister and I have readied the guest bedroom for you to come stay for as long as you need. We'll be by your side by tomorrow night at the latest, so hold tight until then. We've been praying every day for your speedy recovery. Your Mom put your family's name in the church prayer book, and Father Preston has offered to come visit you, if you'd like. Can't wait to see you.
Your brother-in-law, Peter
A fragmentation of consciousness began my spiral. To let the wind, with its crisp deception, funnel me into enmity and madness. I had once thought, a couple years ago, that I had finally made it. I had braved the adolescent mystery and emerged victorious into adulthood. I had found love, however fleeting it was, and had even started going back to church, so my girls could brave the mystery better than I. My poor girls. You, incarnadine devil, slippery Satan; you, who ripped down the walls of my sanity, burned the temple of my faith, and cast my heart into conflagration — you will regret tempting my spirit; taunting my fervor. You dangled perfection before me, laughed in my face, and burned my heaven to the ground. How cruel. To leave a man alone in a world that
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