Inside Another's Eyes

This poem went in a much more macabre direction than I started out at. Inspired by "Today I'll Sit Still" by Ernesto Trejo. Many thanks to Thalia for bringing the poem to my attention. I hope you enjoy.

Inside Another’s Eyes

Trapped inside another person’s echo

Remembering memories I have never known

With unfamiliar faces

Haunting unfamiliar places

And the strangest of those faces is my own

I want to scale the cavern of my skull

And take my heartbeat softly by surprise

And be the sky inside my mortal eyes

And be the sky inside my mortal eyes

I try to swim the river of my blood

Or whatever liquor courses through these veins

With those ever fizzing bubbles

That embodies all my troubles

Til they burst inside another person’s brain

I want to blow away the dust that settles on my heart

That spluttering chokes it to one last demise

And be the sky inside my tear pricked eyes

And be the sky inside my tear pricked eyes

I want to grow inside myself

 Be impossible to contain

Yet I am restrained

For someone else is me

Someone who doesn’t know how to be

And both of us are unhappy

I want to nagivate the maze of my ribs

Picked clean by scuttling ants and buzzing flies

And be the sky inside my former eyes

And be the sky inside my former eyes

March Fourth

So I know that May 4th is Star Wars Day. But I realised that there is another month that is also a word and that month is March. So I think that today, March 4th, should also be a holiday. A holiday where we tell our family that we love them but tell ourselves we are loved too. A day to make dreams to achieve and to make ourselves better people than the day before. A day to be proud of who we are and let the world know we are proud. A day you may say to March Fourth. I hope you enjoy.

March Fourth

Let today be the day

You March Fourth

The day you try to achieve your dreams

Hold your head up high

Smile

Be proud of who you are

For today is a day

Where no one should loathe you

Just for being you

And I’m sorry if they do

But their words are not true

Today is a day of improvement

Where I desire to aspire

To be just a little better

Than the day before

Today I tell my family

How much I love them

Need them,

Take them for granted

Hope the best for them

Because they mean the world to me

And I count myself lucky

That they feel the same way about me

Today is the day

That I smile a little brighter

Hug a little tighter

Feel happy at a friend’s success

Today is the day I March Fourth

And may you all be there by my side

Because when we are together

We have pride.