Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The Pretender

Misterwives' song "Vagabond" truly grasped me surprisingly one day, and ever since I've been listening to this song on loop. It seems to speak so much to me in so many different ways. In fact, it inspired me to write this poem that reflects my own personal struggles. I hope that this song and poem helps you embrace the clarity that it provided me. It really is a blessing to have a good sense of music, and have something that can inspire someone to do better.



The sun rises high with nowhere to go
Voices swarming the inside of your head
Telling you to run
Telling you to go go go
This place is a desert void of stars
Sparkling moments of a single night
Brazen by the silver specks of light.

Capturing the wind in your hair
Voices swarming inside your head
Telling you to run
Telling you to go go go
To a place of solitary ocean breezes
Swimming among the foamy waves
Grasping the dolphin's fin like aero-planes.

You're pretending to not feel alone
You're running from the past
And low hold the night's mist
Covering your face in the twilight
Up and down your insides overwhelmingly go
Telling you to go go go
A vagabond among the winds of change.

Running so far away from your hometown
Throwing those pages into the walls
Through cracks of cement locked tight
Trying to forget, but can't seem to let go.
Memories like a hurricane rushing through
And paralyzes you in a window still pain
Building castles around your suffering.

The sun rises high with nowhere to go
Voices swarming the inside of your head
Telling you to run
Telling you to go go go
This place is a desert void of stars
Sparkling moments of a single night
Brazen by the silver specks of light.

Shake those demons off and rise up up up
Capture the light of the moon in silver streams
Instead of running down down down
And feeling low low low
You're a vagabond searching for a dream
Every day a struggling uphill battle

Against the winds softening your skin.

2 comments:

  1. Strong writing once again, Kenn. One does need to shake off those demons if one can & realize that running doesn't really change anything. I remember when my very first principal told me that years ago. Don't move looking for something! What you need can be found right here. It is not the place ever, but the person.

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    1. I'm young so I've got plenty mistakes in store for me up ahead, but I've always been able to learn from them and become a better person because of it. That is one of the ideals I embrace. The trouble doesn't lay in making the mistake, but in the knowing that it is okay to make them. Nobody is perfect and it is important to embrace that.

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