Weekend Guide: Sometime During Eternity
22 poems
I feel like if i’m not putting something out i’m standing still. What I create will never be perfect. It will just be what it is. Over the past few years i’ve been spending more time with poetry. Reading it and trying to write it. I have no idea if what I write is actually poetry. But i’m going with it. I am stepping into the great unknown. See for yourself.
Sometime During Eternity is a collection of 22 poems.
I am still not sure what these words are, but it seems that ‘poems’ will suffice. For me, an idea can be a song, or a bunch of words strung together. Over my life I have made a lot of songs. They all sort of sound the same, but looking back on it, they sound like me, and that makes me happy.
These words make me feel the same way. Reading them over, they sound like a song. Not in the lyrical sense, but they sound like me, or at least what I imagine myself to sound like. But surely, you will think different.
You don’t know me. Or maybe you know me very well. It will be one or the other. Only my few friends and family, or strangers.
I dedicate these words to the woman I love. To the friends that I have, and the friends I have lost. And to the friends that I have, that I will lose. Somewhere in here there is a part of you. You made me. Through friendship and love. I am not special. We are all the same. I miss you already.
I have always struggled to read poetry, mainly because it makes me feel inadequate. It beats me up, leaves me bruised and broken - a shell of myself. Poems are challenging. Puzzles of a strangers mind. Poems make me feel insecure because I never get it. I can’t win. They never make sense. It has taken me a long time to realize that there is nothing to get, there never has been, and there never will be. I feel like the only way to the other side is to go straight through.
Thank you for joining me - sometime during eternity.
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