Flaws
First
in the dark
I see them
atone them.
I travel
many roads
with my eyes
closed.
Still
I find my
way past ru-
ins burned to
the ground with
misused words
said in my
sleep.
I
will not be
what I dreamed
for I will
be what I
dreamed (& dreams
lie when shown
truths).
Watch
me re-hurt
whom I hurt,
empty shirts
filled
with vanished
men who know
me.
When
I wake, these
flaws will stay
free
from
me & me
from them (both
true).
Sound
like sh-t to
you? Nothing
new.
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So much hope in the first stanza–then the last one stuns.
“I wake, these
flaws will stay
free
from
me & me”
Especially vivid lines. I like the repetition of “me” here–drives in the need to “stay free.” Thought-provoking poem. We can all empathize with the need to atone flaws. . . .
Love it, Lee. Good honest poem. The stanza that grabs me by the lapels is: “I travel / many roads / with my eyes / closed.”
I think much of my life was spent that way.