Questioned Expectation

[gaeln]

Questioned Expectation
I look around wondering
Why I’m even here
I look around realizing
I can't recall why…
Why I ever came

I’m cut loose, have become separate
I float free and against the tide
A single silk tether only remains
So I wonder why…
Why I ever tried

New world has gone deaf
Implied trust has gone blind
Knows my well-intentioned failure
Devoid of me

Comments

[herefordroad]

gayle, this is beautiful. i've never had an easy time deciphering poetry but this speaks to me:

"I’m no longer a cat needing a clan
Its invisible walls feared beyond instinct
New world falters, turns away, collapses
I lick my wounds and run
Run unafraid toward the silence"

and i think this image is especially meaningful:

"I float free and against the tide
A single silk tether only remains"

jeannie

[gaeln]

thank you so much, this is the first thing like this I've ever written. It's my ode to LJ, just hanging on by a thread.

[flashfly]

I like that at the end there is hope. The narrator wants to be shown a way home. That's a start.

[gaeln]

thanks for reading, I guess there's always a little hope