Wings of Poesy

Okay. I found a poem that I deeply love. Deeply. It's so touching. Only because you can interpret it anyway you feel like. That's what I love best about poems. The abstractness. The power the words deliver, hitting you in the chest, and actually liking it. It belongs to a song called 'Disconnecktie' by my all-time second favorite band called Norma Jean. I don't know if you should give it a try though. It's hardcore metal, with such an emotional touch to it. Try it if you want. No harm done. You MUST read this lyric.

It's taken me 50,000 separate wrecks to get here,
And I've learned absolutely
nothing.
As I'm standing here alone, upright and motionless,
I'm drowning
in her sea.
The rising and sinking of every consciousness I've ever
known.
Now detached and disconnected.
The endless cycle of idea and
action,
Endless invention, endless experiment, endless hope and endless
disappointment.
And I thought all I needed was just one breath to stay
afloat.
For me it was like... like the breath, the last breath, the last
breath
that I never wanted.
Any of this.

I'm moving
forward.
I never thought that this would capsize,
But this isn't a boat,
it's a coffin!
And now I'm moving forward.

Into the sea... into
the great sea.
So I begin with the end in mind.
The cycles of heaven, 20
centuries gone by, come home.

I've fallen three miles now... and I
still can't shake this dragon,
But the end is coming like a flood.
It is
going to be a year for growing and the greatest amount of
forgetting.
My sea is dying, but death is a doorway.
And at the
very root of me I know this.
It's the greatest reminder.
What a broad
world to roam in, what a sea to swim in, so I begin with the
end in
mind.

"Disconnecktie : The Faithful Vampire"
-Norma Jean

How do you like it? Comment. Because I think it's brilliant. And you should too. Thank you.\

Nishant.