Take Me to the Moon
Poem
as I stand on a beach
of hope and misery.
Holding only a balloon, I see no shadows.
The bright sun shatters my will
and makes me long for darkness still.
What is life, if not for death?
An empty explanation for faltering breath?
The water charges and takes more and more
Greed soils the beach as a seagull screams with rage and war.
Hate flees from the sky and enters the waves
Nature ignorantly reminds me that humans are only slaves.
Frozen with loss, the air grows still
devouring through my body, a bone-scraping chill.
Brewing on the horizon, is a selfish monsoon.
Please, reclusive balloon, take me to the moon.
Published by Brandon Elliott
17 Years Young // Writer // Intelligent // Knowledge-Seeking // Poetic Because I Can Be // twitter.com/brandonrofl // brandoniswrite.com // View profile
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12 Comments
Post a CommentI'm astounded by such creativity, truth, and thought this poem holds. Your words are
extremely well thought out and written. This poem is flawless.
Awesome job!
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Moon art!
This was very well written.
this is great.
Your talent and ability to think of existential issues (and then write about them so well) is wonderful!
So strange!! today i was just thinking about that how we never take time to get away really from the busy life. worrying about so many thing. was listening to my mother getting upset about things that i thought was not important, just wanted to be away!!!
your poem is so true!! i do feel like we are slave of obligation that we have created!!!
you are full of wisdom my young friend!!
your so talented.
wow this is amazing