A wonderful and weird poem about locked doors and the reasons why they should remain. |
-Rainbow Reasons- by Keaton Foster Rainbow reasons For every season Here I am screaming By the widening shore Next to some wooden door It is locked up tight I have not the key My chainsaw, out of gas My dynamite, impotent I continue to guess As I loosely pontificate Rationally nothing do I waste Certainly I have a hammer And with such brute force I could bash it down But no desire is found I once walked through And I do not wish to return I am here In this weirdness enthralled Copious amounts of madness A malaise of qualified sadness Spread on toast like jelly Too bad I’m not yet hungry My gut is still overstuffed No desire to consume No need for sustenance Ridiculous is this existence Rainbow reasons For every season Here I am screaming By the widening shore Next to some wooden door It is locked up tight Such a tedious plight My life Out there Beyond forever more Is a destiny so adored Right here, at my feet Reality does indeed bleed Not red, nor black or blue Instead for me in bleeds words Mentally pragmatic absurdities All jumbled into piles Of nonsensical nonentities That I must organize and stack Top to bottom, big to little The archaic to unquestionably profound It’s always just a matter of time Trial and error leads to more of the same Nothing here is built upon shame Shame, my favorite four letter word There are creatures by the door Walking along this very shore Standing under this same sun Wondering as I do What is an animal like me Like them, too do Rainbow reasons Is what I scream ever so wide They hear me loud and clear Yet at a distance they still appear Maybe they are afraid of change Maybe they want nothing new An abandonment of what is true The lies that they choose to believe Impossible they indeed seem I am safe in this place This imaginative prison encased I am doing my time Standing between where I’ve been And where it is I wish to go Rainbow reasons Verbosely I again say For every damn season… Rainbow Reasons Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2013 |