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ANGEL'S WINGS
ANGEL’S WINGS
( a sonnet)
My mirrored me stares back in harshest light
My beard breaks blades were never meant to shave
I pull my shoulders back, tear muscles tight
And turn to show the scars of what I gave
A bedroom shocked in plastic water cans
With lover’s hate that permeates the room
Again to feel their weight, those martyred spans
As tortured days, a weightless life, consume
I chose a life that all heaven forsake
What heaven’s blades removed, I gave to her
And pain’s reward, a heart she wouldn’t take
But soul she’d break, to love my pain prefer
Though now chained down in weighted earthly things
When I'm absolved I know I’ll grow new wings
Author's : Inspired by Radiohead's LET DOWN and Wenders' WINGS OF DESIRE. Trophy from the Grow Wings competition...
( a sonnet)
My mirrored me stares back in harshest light
My beard breaks blades were never meant to shave
I pull my shoulders back, tear muscles tight
And turn to show the scars of what I gave
A bedroom shocked in plastic water cans
With lover’s hate that permeates the room
Again to feel their weight, those martyred spans
As tortured days, a weightless life, consume
I chose a life that all heaven forsake
What heaven’s blades removed, I gave to her
And pain’s reward, a heart she wouldn’t take
But soul she’d break, to love my pain prefer
Though now chained down in weighted earthly things
When I'm absolved I know I’ll grow new wings
Author's : Inspired by Radiohead's LET DOWN and Wenders' WINGS OF DESIRE. Trophy from the Grow Wings competition...
Published 20th May 2016
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Anonymous
24th May 2016 1:12am
Geoff, this hurts me to read and these lines killed me....
"And pain’s reward, a heart she wouldn’t take
But soul she’d break, to love my pain prefer"
I am going to say you are much better off without such a person...if I am interpreting this correctly...we all are deserving of absolution and forgiveness for starters and to embrace ones pain is not acceptable to me...
With love - Taryn xoxo
"And pain’s reward, a heart she wouldn’t take
But soul she’d break, to love my pain prefer"
I am going to say you are much better off without such a person...if I am interpreting this correctly...we all are deserving of absolution and forgiveness for starters and to embrace ones pain is not acceptable to me...
With love - Taryn xoxo
Taryn,
I've been involved in some BAD relationships... but never that bad... I wrote this for Art's GROW WINGS competition - I took the trophy -
It was based on a Radiohead song called LET DOWN, but I stole a lot of the stark imgry from a German film called WINGS OF DESIRE about an Angel that thinks about giving up his wings because he falls in love with a mortal woman... so this is not based on personal experience...
But that you were able to get the feeling of the piece means it was successful...
So worry not,
geoff
I've been involved in some BAD relationships... but never that bad... I wrote this for Art's GROW WINGS competition - I took the trophy -
It was based on a Radiohead song called LET DOWN, but I stole a lot of the stark imgry from a German film called WINGS OF DESIRE about an Angel that thinks about giving up his wings because he falls in love with a mortal woman... so this is not based on personal experience...
But that you were able to get the feeling of the piece means it was successful...
So worry not,
geoff
