MIRRORS OF LIFE
THE MONSTER PATH
LONG I STOOD, AND BEST I COULD
I TRIED TO MAKE ME THINK,
FOR TWO PATHS APPEARED BEFORE ME EYES
AND EACH OFFERED ME TO DRINK.
ONE PATH HEAVILY TRAVELED
THE OTHER NOT SO BARE
I THOUGHT PERHAPS A MONSTER
MUST LIVE DOWN IT SOMEWHERE.
SO, I SET ME DOWN WITHIN THE Y
AND SOON FELL FAST ASLEEP,
AND FORE I KNEW IT I WAS BURIED
IN PATH DREAMS WIDE AND DEEP.
JUST LIKE IN ME WAKING STATE
TWO PATHS THEY DID APPEAR,
SINCE I KNEW THIS WAS A DREAM
I'D TAKE THE PATH QUITE BARE.
AND SURE AS FATE WOULD FIND ME OUT
A MONSTER DID APPEAR
I FELT ME DIE THERE ON THE SPOT
AS HE HELD ME EVERY FEAR.
HE LAUGHED AT ME, MADE FUN OF ME
FOR I CAME TO A SUDDEN STOP,
AND WHEN HE LET GO HIS AWFUL ROAR
ON ME FACE I DID DROP.
THEN I FELT A STRANGE SINEW
FROM SOMEWHERE DEEP WITHIN A LAND
IT GRABBED ME BY THE SEAT OF ME PANTS
AND STRAIGHT UP, IT MADE ME STAND!
THEN APPEARED THERE IN ME HAND
A SWORD OF INDIGO-BLUE,
AND FORE I KNEW WHAT TO THINK
I GREW AND GREW AND GREW.
THEN I ROARED AND LAUGHED IN MIRTH
AT THE MONSTER STANDING THERE,
BARELY TALL AS A BLADE OF GRASS
AND AROUND ME FEET THE FEAR.
THEN THE SWORD LIFTED ME ARM
AND POOF! THE MONSTER, HE WAS GONE,
AND IN THE PLACE WHERE FEARS HAD STOOD
WERE SCENTED FLOWERS EVERYONE.
AND I LAUGHED ME LAUGH TIL ME SIDES ACHED
AND TEARS AND SWEAT RAN FREELY DOWN,
THEN I AWOKE IN THE Y-PATH
THERE NESTLED ON THE GROUND.
SO, I STOOD UP TO SMELL THE AIR
AND BRISTLE IN THE WIND,
AS I EYED ONCE ME CHOICE OF PATH
AND MY JOURNEY TO BEGIN.
AND ME THOUGHTS ME HEARD A MONSTER ROAR
DOWN THAT WELL-IGNORED OLD PATH,
AND FOR THE LIFE OF ME I COULD NOT RESIST
AS ME BELLY BEGAN TO LAUGH.
SO, IN YOUTH'S DARING COURAGE
AND BLIND RESOLVE
I FLUNG MESELF INTO THE WIND,
FOR I'D HAD A PEEK INSIDE AND KNEW
JUST HOW IT ALL WOULD END.
HA HA HA HA HA
POET 1/8/2001
COPYRIGHT thepoetskiss
I TRIED TO MAKE ME THINK,
FOR TWO PATHS APPEARED BEFORE ME EYES
AND EACH OFFERED ME TO DRINK.
ONE PATH HEAVILY TRAVELED
THE OTHER NOT SO BARE
I THOUGHT PERHAPS A MONSTER
MUST LIVE DOWN IT SOMEWHERE.
SO, I SET ME DOWN WITHIN THE Y
AND SOON FELL FAST ASLEEP,
AND FORE I KNEW IT I WAS BURIED
IN PATH DREAMS WIDE AND DEEP.
JUST LIKE IN ME WAKING STATE
TWO PATHS THEY DID APPEAR,
SINCE I KNEW THIS WAS A DREAM
I'D TAKE THE PATH QUITE BARE.
AND SURE AS FATE WOULD FIND ME OUT
A MONSTER DID APPEAR
I FELT ME DIE THERE ON THE SPOT
AS HE HELD ME EVERY FEAR.
HE LAUGHED AT ME, MADE FUN OF ME
FOR I CAME TO A SUDDEN STOP,
AND WHEN HE LET GO HIS AWFUL ROAR
ON ME FACE I DID DROP.
THEN I FELT A STRANGE SINEW
FROM SOMEWHERE DEEP WITHIN A LAND
IT GRABBED ME BY THE SEAT OF ME PANTS
AND STRAIGHT UP, IT MADE ME STAND!
THEN APPEARED THERE IN ME HAND
A SWORD OF INDIGO-BLUE,
AND FORE I KNEW WHAT TO THINK
I GREW AND GREW AND GREW.
THEN I ROARED AND LAUGHED IN MIRTH
AT THE MONSTER STANDING THERE,
BARELY TALL AS A BLADE OF GRASS
AND AROUND ME FEET THE FEAR.
THEN THE SWORD LIFTED ME ARM
AND POOF! THE MONSTER, HE WAS GONE,
AND IN THE PLACE WHERE FEARS HAD STOOD
WERE SCENTED FLOWERS EVERYONE.
AND I LAUGHED ME LAUGH TIL ME SIDES ACHED
AND TEARS AND SWEAT RAN FREELY DOWN,
THEN I AWOKE IN THE Y-PATH
THERE NESTLED ON THE GROUND.
SO, I STOOD UP TO SMELL THE AIR
AND BRISTLE IN THE WIND,
AS I EYED ONCE ME CHOICE OF PATH
AND MY JOURNEY TO BEGIN.
AND ME THOUGHTS ME HEARD A MONSTER ROAR
DOWN THAT WELL-IGNORED OLD PATH,
AND FOR THE LIFE OF ME I COULD NOT RESIST
AS ME BELLY BEGAN TO LAUGH.
SO, IN YOUTH'S DARING COURAGE
AND BLIND RESOLVE
I FLUNG MESELF INTO THE WIND,
FOR I'D HAD A PEEK INSIDE AND KNEW
JUST HOW IT ALL WOULD END.
HA HA HA HA HA
POET 1/8/2001
COPYRIGHT thepoetskiss
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