Visionary or Vandal?
When you cannot find a way to express yourself, poetry can help. It can be a catalyst to your emotions. For me, both reading and writing poetry helps understand myself better. In my latest poem Visionary or Vandal, I reach deep within to understand togetherness and aloneness. Hope you like it!
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Visionary or Vandal?
Our story arch shortened
Like a weakening heartbeat
I guess it was paper-thin
Or no better than cheap
As you wound up face down
Dreaming on concrete
I had dreamt too
Because stories unravel
Like a house of string
They can come to mean
Well, anything
‘Whatever you like, Amor’
You can melt
Consequence
Explore crack
Into pavements
Build walls, shut doors
Dwell in bed
Reality finds you
– a rush to the head
I could persist
(As you once did)
Synchronicity
A chance to exist
The truth is
Absolutely nothing
Life is… What you make it?
So collect the mismatched pixels
Don’t run from your wall
There’s no beauty in an escape
Or glory in the fall
Dream an artist’s dream
Drop among the stars
The visionary
Isn’t a vandal
Painting over
The past
This poem explores the duality between creation and destruction. Are you escaping reality because you are a creative visionary – or because you need to vandalise the present? The lines can blur – and sometimes you can be both. Never be afraid to walk on the line. Never let anyone tell you that there is one way of being. Not in life, not in love.
If you like Visionary or Vandal, make sure to read my other poetry The Toothbrush, Moonshine, and The Apple Core.
Let me know your thoughts!
Lots of love,
Hayley x