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

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