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“Signal”
You gave your word you would return for me,
but are you the honest type? —
I have floated in the void between stars for years;
you were my first hope that all would grow right.
You claimed you were bound by heart and by chain
to the other side of existence:
the side where people flit to and fro in the background
as do shadows of leaves in the night.
But do you remember the side I am on,
the other side of that mirror of fortune?
Where all is backwards? — where the smallest crack
in the surface will release the blood of shade?
I have no doubt the signals you have sent me
mean you have not forgotten my pains,
but doubt I do your commitment to a troubled soul
in which a vacuum did this life create.
* * *
Recently, I have attempted to try less to write lyrics and try more to write poems -- after all, good lyrics read like a good poem. This is a work-in-progress, more fancy wording than poem, but while it is unpolished, I do like the direction it suggests I take in the future when writing poems.
Before you ask, yes, this is meant to be obviously inspired by science fiction. Whether the sci-fi portions are metaphorical or otherwise is meant to be determined via the discretion of the reader.
Constructive criticism would be appreciated.
You gave your word you would return for me,
but are you the honest type? —
I have floated in the void between stars for years;
you were my first hope that all would grow right.
You claimed you were bound by heart and by chain
to the other side of existence:
the side where people flit to and fro in the background
as do shadows of leaves in the night.
But do you remember the side I am on,
the other side of that mirror of fortune?
Where all is backwards? — where the smallest crack
in the surface will release the blood of shade?
I have no doubt the signals you have sent me
mean you have not forgotten my pains,
but doubt I do your commitment to a troubled soul
in which a vacuum did this life create.
* * *
Recently, I have attempted to try less to write lyrics and try more to write poems -- after all, good lyrics read like a good poem. This is a work-in-progress, more fancy wording than poem, but while it is unpolished, I do like the direction it suggests I take in the future when writing poems.
Before you ask, yes, this is meant to be obviously inspired by science fiction. Whether the sci-fi portions are metaphorical or otherwise is meant to be determined via the discretion of the reader.
Constructive criticism would be appreciated.
