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This is a poem I wrote today titled: The Box.
It's about a person who choses to live the safest and most reserved of lives, closing themselves away from the rest of the world, and forgetting life. This person realizes that something is wrong, but doesn't know how to get out of their seclusion. Ultimately, they hid themselves with the idea of preservation. The message here is; face life and embrace the good and the bad, and always be thankful that you aren't a fool in a box.
I lay here in this box,
This brown box, with four corners,
My box is very big, and very dark,
And sometimes, it gets very lonely.
In my box there are no voices,
And there’s no light to come through,
Because my box is closed,
This big, dark, brown box, with four corners, and a lid.
And in the darkness, I wonder,
What does the world look like?
Are there other people in other boxes?
And, what does my box look like, from outside?
These are the questions that haunt me in my box,
But I can’t know the answer,
Because there is no one there,
No one, in my big, dark, lonely, brown box, with four corners.
I would sing in my box,
But I have never learned how,
Because there’s no one to teach me,
So it is quiet.
I would dream in my box,
But, how should I know what to dream,
When I don’t know what’s really out there,
Outside my big, dark, secluded, brown box, with four corners.
And how would I get out of my box?
There are only walls,
Only walls, and a closed ceiling,
With no escape.
I would like to see what’s out there,
Maybe hear what a voice sounds like,
But I can’t,
Not in my big, dark, brown box, with four corners, and no door.
It’s silly, living in a box,
Sitting in the corner thinking,
Pondering life, though I don’t know very much of it,
It’s silly to have closed myself, in this box.
It is also very strange, that no one looks for me,
But that is because this box belongs only to me,
And I am safe here, safe and blind,
Here in my big, dark, brown box, with four corners, locked away.
Thanks much for reading, if anyone actually read this. If not, I'm talking to myself, but that's okay too. mrgreen
~WhiteShadow14
March 14, 2007
 WhiteShadow14 · Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 06:25am · 0 Comments |
