Self Determination, por Icarus

Self Determination

It’s never free

There is always a cost

Self determination

Requires

Casting off the yoke

Letting go of the world

Free from others condemnation

You are free to pursue

Your own course of action

You were more Than yourself For me You were A reason

Naked and unashamed  The garden abandoned  Acceptance exchanged alienation in judgement alone

2014-12-29-23-07-15_journalx It is all too easy to be a smug pr… I don’t watch t.v. I don’t eat McDonald’s I don’t use facebook

Here comes the rain To wash away All the things the could have been Here comes the rain ( again) A cleansing flood

I want you Out of my head Out of my heart I want your memory To leave me be

How was it possible? Why on earth Did it never happen Before? How did you change

Driven too long with out coolant With out lubricant, my wife Blew the head gasket on the old Buick century. Now lifeless on the flatbed. Wait…

You drew me too deep inside.Only to cast me away. Playing

Hope is so elusive It just won’t come near Hopelessness and foolishness Grasping to things that just aren’… I can’t seem to find freedom

In the street. Pensive glares pregnant with meaning. Imagined Memories. Greetings between Former lovers wrenched

REST! REST! REST! It is finished he has said put no faith in your own hands

I have done you Oh, so wrong. I have never given you What you need Forgive my failure

2015-01-01-19-13-39_poetryx World Divided I sit here alone waiting on the edge harsh reality

I never told you a lie I was honest from the start You knew about my wife You knew who I was You accepted the facts

It has never changed My heart’s inclination. I am still drawn to you. Having known you I cannot see you