Glass Flowers

• Artist: Sugarfied
• Description: This poem is actually symbolic in how it was written. At the begining when it is talking about repetition it is metered 10 15 10 etc. Once it changes topic though it loses the meter. Yes I did this on purpose...
  
  This poem can be about whatever you want it to be, but for me its about a person who appears in your life and changes you, for better or worse now you must go on with your life either with them or without them but either way, how you look at the world has changed.
• Date: 07/13/2009
• Tags: glass flowers

The cranks and turns of gears push time forward,
my heart's steady beat matched to aging's robotic procedure.
Dull throb of muscle expanding on bone,
and clenched teeth grinding until fragile jaw shatters from pressure.
Words to be stolen from frost bitten breath,
stay sealed, barricaded behind bitter lips too shy to speak.
Never bold, always silent, forsaken,
until this path before me wove a new chapter in its wake.
Glass flowers and barbed wire thorns encase,
a hand reaches out clutching my bare heart daring to penatrate
the thin fibers of tissue.
your very emotions corrupting me,
but oh to pluck your fingers one by one I could free myself from your grasp
only to what?
have my heart whither and die,
weakened by your touch the molding of your hand,
your fingerprints will always keep their shape
forcing this pathetic organ of mine to function in a new fashion
to accomadate your immpressions.
Now I sit, waiting,
Waiting for my glass flowers to shatter.

Comments

[Arkythiana]

I like the meaning behind your poem, and even before I read your description, I received the same impression. I like how the actions in this poem portray the meaning so well, and the adjectives and adverbs you used really gave it a feeling of coldness and loneliness.

[Sugarfied]

Oooo I like that word.... visceral.

[davidl8ly]

Much more complicated...very nice...deeply symbolic and visceral.