tag:dreamwidth.org,2013-05-12:2014669 (are we there yet?) kokopelle 2017-03-26T23:13:56Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2013-05-12:2014669:566393 2015-09-21T02:05:43Z 2017-03-26T23:13:56Z contemplative public 0 One of my themes in my 100 poetry theme challenge is starvation. The poem “Alone” considers the dynamics of why people are starving for each other.<br /><br /><br />Alone<br />Poem for Day 262 – 20150920<br /><br />Have I fasted for too long,<br />was there a purpose to denial?<br />The chalice was passed to me<br />and I was asked to comply<br />with the mad god's nightmares<br />of being alone in this world.<br /><br />I have a healthy appetite,<br />survival and not addiction,<br />so why should I live on crumbs?<br />The grumbling you hear is below,<br />a void begging to be filled,<br />separated from the world's buffet.<br /><br />Water water everywhere<br />and not a drop found in my bed.<br />The ocean outside my window,<br />seen on in the streets and TV,<br />knowing how to dip the cup,<br />to find mine is filled with holes.<br /><br />The stars must not be aligned<br />a retrograde cosmic twist,<br />above the path I persist.<br />I'm fated to walk alone by design,<br />foretold by the divine inside joke,<br />with my life as the punchline.<br /><br />Check the sprockets for alignment,<br />with the others in proximity.<br />Why are there no gears engaging<br />between our mutual machinery?<br />Perhaps I am alien technology,<br />incompatible with a terrestrial world.<br /><br />Does my happiness depend on this?<br />Am I a sum of my present parts,<br />not misused by the absent life?<br />The mad god asks for his sacrifice,<br />I am the sacrificial lamb who must comply<br />by being alone in this world.<br /><br />© 2015, Sean Green. All Rights Reserved.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kokopelle&ditemid=566393" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments