POEM: Friendship
The composition in larger type towards the bottom is my CPC. Pick-Apart poem for June. Hosts of this monthly Wednesday challenge, Barbara k. and Silver Lining, are featuring the poem below by Mary Margaret to pick 25 words from which to make a new poem.
FRIENDSHIP
Racing passing thoughts
chasing secret sensations,
awaken an entrance
to my visions,
keeping my soul alive.
To kindred spirits
I would share relief,
and hold on.
June 25th 2013 RGD
Words gleaned and recomposed from Mary Margaret’s 1993 poem “Shared This Ride From Dusk Till Dawn.”
Shared This Ride From Dusk Till Dawn
Chasing many thoughts
In a racing mind
Having unique sensations
Since a child I find
People passing secrets
Then passing looks my way
Hearing whispers speak
Happenings came their way
They were unknown enemies
Out to steal my soul
Spirits directed their mind
I was Ostracized
Was their control
Dreams, a path, a entrance
At night at bed I sleep
Awaken many times
Spirits, threatening my visions keep
Keeping my soul alive
To keep this body shell
I would pray to my Lord God
And send them to their hell
Through life I fight these spirits
In my outer and in my sleep
Now I am getting older
I am getting weak
The pain is getting stronger
My thoughts race so fast
They speak constant
More louder than the past
Knowledge, of my disease, I know of today
Gives me sense of relief
Of all of the torrid days
Now.. a child kindred to my soul
Shares this Ride more out of control
I will not dismiss my soul
His will to be HIS LIFE!
I will live to protect him
To guide his mind of strife
To be that needed shoulder
Hold him down in violent rage
Share the many tears
The voices, dreams paranoid stage!
To ride our mind-made roller-coaster
Pray we both hold on!!
Remember The War is the Lords
Say our prayer
from
Dusk till Dawn!
Such an eloquent and beautiful tribute to Friendship. Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful “Pick-Apart” poem with us tonight. :love: :love: :love: