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By onemorething
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Sometimes a tidal wave of unfiltered detail
overwhelms me; how small I am then,
swept away as if, spellbound, I saw myself
from the altitude of a plane window -
it is as close as I'll ever be to the eye view
of a bird.
And I would not recognise any defining feature
from that distance, I would be indiscernible
from any other speck waving back.
If I think about what is little to me:
the diminutive hedge kings who flit
their paroxysms of fear,
or the fly that seems to rest carefree
on the almond sickliness of meadowsweet, or
even the dew, indifferent, that manages to reflect
the amber magnitude of the morning sun.
I see that I have made a fraction of myself,
I am a wren, perhaps, who can only take higher
flight upon the back of a bigger bird,
lost to self-deception.
I have always felt that I was a visitor
in the lives of others, and as if this is what's shaped me,
I became someone who did not belong anywhere.
The sands shift, but there are desert regions
in my heart still, that are bird-less, where I have fled
from people and memories - though it's so hard
to resist them - that sense that your past
truly knows you - a complicated, old companion,
though it is this mirage of cold smiles
that restrains you from yourself in the present
when there is only this.
Image from pixabay.
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Everything about this poem
Everything about this poem speaks to me, especially in that third stanza;- feeling like a visitor in the lives of others rings so true. You really hit the nail on the head when you wrote this poem, especially as I could relate to it.
Hope you're having a good Christmas onemorething. I wish you a healthy, happy prosperous New Year.
Jenny.
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Please write as many wren
Please write as many wren poems as you can - this one is beautiful!
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