H.S. Poetry Part 19 (Doll House, Glass Trees, Just Like You, Look At Us)

Doll House

All these people
Not one of them frowns
All with painted smiles
All with wasted bliss
They never shed a tear
That isn’t artificial
Never growl in fury
With nonexistent teeth
They smile in recognition
They smirk in pity
But inside, they all suffer
They hide their tears and frowns
They shield their rage and sorrow
With synthetic smiles and grins
They lie to themselves and others
In their doll house lives
A guise of happiness soon is thrown away
For the true mask of misery

12/21/03




Glass Trees

Crystalline branches
Bathed in light
Twinkling facets shine
In the sunrise
We pass them by
And wait for the spring
As the sun sets
The diamond arbors
Lost their luster
We wait patiently
For the next winter
To see the trees of glass
That shatter in the night
Lost in their beauty
We forget that spring
Is lurking beneath the
Glass perfection
We mustn’t let
The trees covered in prism
That make the lights dance and frolic
The ones that make us forget
The sheer reality
That glass is fragile
And will break in the spring night
We mustn’t let them disappear

1/11/04



Just Like You

We were once the same, but now
You follow a different path
I once could always talk with you
But now…well you do the math

We come from different worlds
Our minds are not the same
Out likes and dislikes conflict
Putting each other to shame

But in the end, I find that
We aren’t that different at all
After all, aren’t we both a person
That follows a drawing call?

So, in the end, I’m sorry; I’m not at all like you
But, you’re not like me either. So I’m still just like you.




Look at Us

Look at us
We stand out
Scars or imperfections
Matter not in the end
For the ones who are outcasts
Can make the normal feel exiled
Look at us
At what we do
Do you want
To be different too?
Can we be the same
As everyone else
If we no longer feel
The same as before

10/31/03