Struggle ( a really long poem)
Updated: Feb 20, 2021
Struggle
By, Wendiann Alfieri
As the wind whips my hair
As my feet try to stay grounded
It appears my anxiety is unfounded
My feet are buried even beneath this glass
To make sure I stay here
The pain doesn’t even feel bad
It’s better than flying around with debri In the wind
Trying to carry me
The farthest away
I dig my feet into the glass
Sweat runs down my back
Part of me wishes
The wind would give up
That the earth won’t make me sink
Either way I will bleed
So take me to my element
the water is so clear
Let me float there
Let me swim down deep
With a tail and folklore fantasy
I don’t like the garbage on the ground
Or the smell of sewage and the swirling plastic bags the wind carries
The fire in me wants to get even
I just want to be in a clear sea
swim down deep
Caution I must reap,
As I know the fishes is not where I want to sleep
I think of time as one moment
One Big Bang
And everything is a cycle
Everything bounces off each other
It’s like dominoes
No matter how you place them they all fall consecutively
they end up what they started as
A handful of tiles
It doesn’t matter the beauty in between, the thought you can make something so delicately just to knock it down
It started one way
A handful of tiles
No matter your creativity or ideas
It ends the same way
As a handful of tileS
It teaches and builds patience and strategy whether placing them upward to knock down or playing the game strategically
It started as a handful of tiles
it ends the same way
I am just starting to dream
Through this crazy world
I’ve done what I need to for the day
On my pillow my head soon lays
The morning roles on
The kids jump in the bed
“ Let us go outside, to our Childness we shall wed
Parting words and favors mom, what do you have to provide us with luck?”
Damn, sounds like something fun
I try to sit up
Exiting the sleep kingdom
I try but I can’t
My head keeps making me think I woke up and I get up in this dream that I think is real
Because of its very appeal
Everytime I get up
It snaps me back to me waking up
It goes on and on
“Waking up” full appetite
Starved once again
Just please brain,