Poetry: #97 To Set Fire to What You Say (Used 5)

A selection from a personal collection: Used

Preface

As this collection unfolds each week, I want you, dear reader or listener, to understand that no matter what you’re going through, what you’ve been through, there is an end—there is light at the end of the tunnel. Letting go of the past is only possible if you live in the present. Make the past history, learn what you can about yourself, at whatever pace is comfortable, and I promise your present will take you to a brighter future.

To Set Fire to What You Say

To think my mind is so great is to lie to both myself and many people around. I am an ordinary human with ordinary emotion. Not the fakeness I have surrounded myself with. Not with the parties, the alcohol, the drugs, the sex. It is all meaningless to me and no matter how I try to find a way to fill the void I’ve created in my chest I know there is another way to progress through this storied path.

To forget, to not remember, to let go the feelings so many shallow brained individuals have allowed themselves to do. I can, not. I am not shallow. I am a diamond, I may be rough, but I can shine and I am damn sure I am transparent. I am not hard to comprehend; I am who I have said I am all along.

To say I have changed is to ignore the fact that all I have done is open my eyes to the scenery before me and said “I do not want this in my life”. To ignore the fact that as I get ever older I remain the same inside, I am maturing, this is true, but at a rate greater than many I once knew.

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What are your thoughts on this poem?

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I hear another poem is coming every Saturday!