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Comets fly overhead like blazing rocketships in the sky While I stand here with my rifle propped up, its butt against the ground, and the meaning of life slipping in and out of my hands. I can't remember the second half of happiness anymore. But I will wait, I will wait for you. |
Copyright ©2013 Ashi Shadow -1/11/13
Inspired by song "I Will Wait For You" song by Mumford and Sons while driving home.
That song made me "feel" like when watching comets blaze across the sky.
And the poem is actually about working too hard (the metaphor is a war of course, but it's about me working at my job here, having moved away from my friends and separated from my past social life, my current social life, and my humanity).
The poem is also of course, on PM, whom I wish I was living in the same city as.
The setting was intended to be on some kind of planet lacking an atmosphere (a setting like the moon, something like star trek but with more of a star wars feel), and the line "I can't remember the second half / of happiness anymore" was a brilliant stroke when I was trying to come up with a way of expressing having a hard time remembering what it was like to be happy while working in this situation, and also expressing (indirectly) that I miss being with PM.