Young Highways
03.05.08 (12:04 pm) [edit]
Since I don't have much to say today. I decided to post a poem sent to me from an old friend. I wrote it when I was 16 (so, you know, read it with compassion) after my father drove to a local city to see his 18 year old girlfriend, whom he had married 5 years previously. We were speeding along in the darkness, I was sitting in the backseat, hating him with a vengeance. I wrote the poem, in part, as a way to ignore him. So here goes:Highways of Darkness
Highways in the darkness,
breathing wind like icy softness.
We are racing toward Heaven
or wherever we may be going.
My mind is like a ribbon--twisted and misleading
and it will take a new eternity
to untangle your mind from within it.
Perhaps it will unravel
when the light up dawn is upon us.
But until then the darkness is beautiful,
for we've never seen the light
on the highways of forever.
breathing wind like icy softness.
We are racing toward Heaven
or wherever we may be going.
My mind is like a ribbon--twisted and misleading
and it will take a new eternity
to untangle your mind from within it.
Perhaps it will unravel
when the light up dawn is upon us.
But until then the darkness is beautiful,
for we've never seen the light
on the highways of forever.
posted by: Gledwood (reply)
post date: 03.05.08 (10:08 am)
I like it! I was tuned into infinity at that age, too
posted by: Gledwood (reply)
post date: 03.05.08 (10:08 am)
I like it! I was tuned into infinity at that age, too
posted by: Barnabus1 (reply)
post date: 03.05.08 (12:57 pm)
Poes is good! Too bad your dad didn't have more sense!! really stupid thing he did, and he should have known better...there is a lot to be said for Faithfulness!!!
posted by: nightbreed (reply)
post date: 03.05.08 (3:10 pm)
I enjoyed your poem
posted by: mimi (reply)
post date: 03.05.08 (8:34 pm)
pardon me for asking, but if she was 18 and he married her 5 years previous, does that mean he married a 13 year old CHILD! ???????? You must have been what...confused/furious/insane! and your poor mother! good lord! what was he thinking???? i bet you'd give your eye teeth to know, wouldn't you!???? xoxoxoxoxo
posted by: mimi (reply)
post date: 03.05.08 (8:35 pm)
oh, btw, (grinning stupidly) i love the poem! xoxox
posted by: ggirl (reply)
post date: 03.06.08 (7:27 am)
Reply to: mimi
It's okay to ask. Yes, he did marry a child who was only two years older than I. I spoke about it a lot in my earliest posts.
posted by: lostin2007 (reply)
post date: 03.06.08 (5:59 pm)
i love the poem! *hugs*
posted by: bronwynj (reply)
post date: 03.11.08 (6:57 pm)
Good grief, why didn't he go to jail? (or did he?) I'm behind the times, obviously.
Good poem G, amazing how switched on 17 year olds are, hey?
