Thursday, March 12, 2009

moratorium

i'm just a question
a petty thief
searching for words to explain your grief
and i could write pages of dripping dawn
tightrope suns and
silly schemes
to rid the world of its lesser themes
but i know i'm wrong
these things will haunt us
they will be bedsheets hung on the door
hurricane warnings, silent good mornings
from a silent war
there's no such thing
as a cease-fire, only a play
to forget our lines. call it a treaty
go on with living, or fighting this war.

2 comments:

Ianthe Wilde said...

!!!
and since i am here to comment before riley, i don't even have to have my artistic appreciation ruined by references to things i don't understand! yay.
you're good.

beer is beer. like, drinking. especially in college. are you sure you caught all my references?

the unholy atlantic said...

"i'm just a question" may be a reference to my favorite jets to brazil song ever.
oh and lots of this is the book thief.
that's all the references i got.
das es gut.
(i have no idea whether or not that is accurate german)