song of nothing in particular
Sep. 25th, 2019 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
betteroffbadpoets are not supposed to feel guilt
for the things that collect in their minds like silt
or for writing poems about nothing very important in the grand scheme of things
such as chili i had for dinner or the shape of a dragonfly's wings
yet sometimes when I read poems about untimely death
a hiccup of guilt deforms the rhythm of my breath
and when I read poems about systematic oppression
I begin to feel the inklings of a self-centered depression
whereas if I felt free to write of nothing in particular
who knows but that it might lift our weary hearts like a funicular
for the things that collect in their minds like silt
or for writing poems about nothing very important in the grand scheme of things
such as chili i had for dinner or the shape of a dragonfly's wings
yet sometimes when I read poems about untimely death
a hiccup of guilt deforms the rhythm of my breath
and when I read poems about systematic oppression
I begin to feel the inklings of a self-centered depression
whereas if I felt free to write of nothing in particular
who knows but that it might lift our weary hearts like a funicular
