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Poetic Thoughts - Another Poem By Neil Cain - by C.W. Pruitt II

posted: Mar. 19, 2010

Another Poem By Neil Cain

Below is another poem by Neil Cain. Like this last poem, I enjoy it thoroughly. I hope you dig it, too.

The Light at our backs

What is mind but a pane of glass,

tilted to see the reflection of the light at our backs?

And what is time but a waste of thoughts?

To have, to have not,

to be, to be sought,

to be left lonesome by the side of the road

to the tune of the passing car drone

Without will I am heavenly and free,

call me a fool as I stand like a tree

content implies conception,

so I won't say anything at all,

emptiness has taken me and broken my fall

from what is now nothing,

I heed the call

of gravity...

like a sinking stone

flying towards what we've always known

I've made room in my head for visitors,

won't you come and stay?

We'll make meals out of memories as records play

and sculpt verse out of words like meaningless clay,

that when given shape become so profound in a way

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