cirerita
Founding member
Hey, guys, I just put my little one to sleep and wrote a few lines. They're as unpolished as you can get, and it shows, but what the hell.
"We Celebrate"
I was sitting in an old, battered wooden bench,
and my little one was running around
in the garden.
I always have a book
in my hands,
taking notes,
looking like a most serious fellow,
but today I just had time
on my hands,
and she usually brings me flowers
and puts them in my pockets
while singing songs no one understands,
but today she left them
on my lap,
silently.
She had me:
I almost broke down.
And I took off my clothes
and run naked in the garden,
laughing out so loud that the trees
and the birds
and the clouds
and the butterflies
stopped dead,
startled into life.
And we rolled down the grass,
embraced like ancient children,
and we screamed
and we squealed,
feeling the leaves of grass
and the twigs of time
against our bodies.
And the dogs looked at us,
not knowing what to do,
and the ants took a turn
south,
far from the feast,
and the lizards sunbathed,
untouched.
And then I walked her in my arms
and put her to sleep,
knowing that the day was far from done.
The gods smiled.
"We Celebrate"
I was sitting in an old, battered wooden bench,
and my little one was running around
in the garden.
I always have a book
in my hands,
taking notes,
looking like a most serious fellow,
but today I just had time
on my hands,
and she usually brings me flowers
and puts them in my pockets
while singing songs no one understands,
but today she left them
on my lap,
silently.
She had me:
I almost broke down.
And I took off my clothes
and run naked in the garden,
laughing out so loud that the trees
and the birds
and the clouds
and the butterflies
stopped dead,
startled into life.
And we rolled down the grass,
embraced like ancient children,
and we screamed
and we squealed,
feeling the leaves of grass
and the twigs of time
against our bodies.
And the dogs looked at us,
not knowing what to do,
and the ants took a turn
south,
far from the feast,
and the lizards sunbathed,
untouched.
And then I walked her in my arms
and put her to sleep,
knowing that the day was far from done.
The gods smiled.
