Hey, guys! Didn’t really feel it was such good value to throw some of these shorter poems in their own post, so I decided to combine a few of ’em here in ‘Shorties,’ a spinoff of SoBroetry where I’ll pick a few of my…you guessed it…shorter pieces to share.
A SHADOW, A FOOTSTEP
What lies beyond
The cosmic horror
Not knowing
Our minds filling in the gaps
The beast under your bed grabbing your ankle
What’s on the other side of the closet door?
Goblins, ghouls…not of this Earth
A stir in the quiet night
Closing the blinds
A stranger standing in your yard
The moonlight throwing shadows
Human? Or nature?
Our minds filling in the gap.
A shadow or a ghost
A footstep or a dream
That you think you know, that you ever will, is as futile as straining to see in the dark.
SOUL AND BODY
How can it be?
To be so deeply lost in a dream
Far away from our reality
It’s all the same, but it’s different
I wake up weary
Physically drained
This phantom pain in my side
I feel as though I’ve traveled millennia
And shit, maybe I did
Maybe that’s the ticket
We stir our minds, shake it off
Rise and go about our day
We say it was a crazy dream
Though it takes a moment to calibrate
It all felt normal in the moment
Though it all seems so surreal now
But if we’re restless
If we feel our spirits can’t be tamed
Who’s to say they are?
What if there’s nothing chaining our souls to our bodies?
AMBITION
Ambition, the drug
Yields highest of highs
For the fullest of hearts
And the clearest of eyes
It’s building a ladder
An apple tree to climb
It’s the strength to ascend it
For a fruit in its prime
Ambition, the poison
Consumes our every thought
Threatens our peace
An endless battle fought
It’s plucking every apple
Til there’s no fruit to bear
It’s exhaustion making us slip
And tumble through the air
Ambition, the fire
Igniting our course
Ambition, the gravity
Crushing us with force
Ambition, the light
Guiding us home
Ambition and vision
Can leave us feeling alone
Too little ambition
We sit idle and stale
Too much ambition
And we’re destined to fail
Balance ambition
A true north lies in between
Allow it to teach us
And, carefully, we may follow our dreams
Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley.
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