POEM STARTER
Awakening
Write a poem about an awakening - it could be literal or metaphorical.
Awake; not dead
Again, I am awake
not dead, but awake
my eyes are not open
my body is not warm
yet I am awake still and the limbs that cling to me are nothing but weights to an already heavy creature
Again, I am awake
I wait till sunrise
for something new to snap me out of it
rouse me from this dream and bring me to someplace else
Again, again
I. Am. Awake
I will not go silently or let them carry me away into a plot of land
A small hole where I’ll rot forever
Where they can push me down into the Earth and cover me with soil only to forget about me years later
Please help me. I awake