Cellophane Shield
“A cellophane shield is all I have to guard my heart…”
When does the ending-End…and when does the new thing Start?
Looking at everything that moves so slow…that’s around you…
You’re two feet from the Finish Line… with nothing left…to ev-en follow through.
You might as well have both feet frozen in a block of ice…
It is down to the wire… Time for you to play… not so nice.
The cellophane that guards your heart… is broken… stretched full of holes…
It didn’t wait for you to complete…all your goals.
You’re down for the count… a Penalty has been called on the Play…
You wanna press on… but the games already called…’cause of your de-lay.
Go…Go…1000 times you tell yourself…
But you’re stuck in that place like a dusty old book… standing on a shelf.
“Fight…Fight… Jab and Move…don’t stay in the Corner of the Ring…”
But your feet…are stuck like glue…as your opponent takes a mighty swing…
You fall to the canvas…as you feel the wallop’s sting…
You jumped into the Arena… but failed to bring what you’re supposed to bring!
Now… standing further away from your goal than you have ever been…
You ask yourself… what in the World is it gonna take to ever Win?
The cellophane shield that guards your heart has burst wide open…
Leaving you in a defeated mode to which you’ve already been coping.
Face planted to the ground…no good outcome… with which to compare…
Heaving from Exhaustion …sucking in hard …for Air.
“You are down for the count, Bud…Don’t think you have a chance…”
Don’t even get back up… and back into a fighting stance.
It’s done for you…you are out of the game…
If you try anything else…the results will be the same.
You rip away the tiny cellophane shield that may still remain…
Though it is thin…removing it…lets in even more pain.
And now there is nothing left… the battle has been decided…
It agreed with your first assessment… that you gave… that your inner-soul confided.
“You will not make it through this”…. Your own conscience had to confess…
You’re not ready to make it to the final outcome… You can’t fix this mess.
The “Cellophane” that once guarded my heart…is gone…between me and real-I-ty…
And left my heart wide open… to see clearly… things I didn’t wanna see.
So, while in agony…and in pain…
I feel things… I couldn’t feel… while covered with cellophane.
Making me clear the dryness in my throat…with new clarity of mind…that shocks me to the core…
Allowing me to see that the thin cellophane shield…that was there to guard my heart…is not needed…ANYMORE!
The End.
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Enough of that intro. It is really great to be writing here on: "The Creative Exiles". I am lining up some of my best writings for this website. Going to "Bring-it" with a variety of "Poetic-able" Topics. So just kick back and enjoy some of the Poetry I send out to you. It’s all for “Entertainment” purposes only…so all you will have to do is read and enjoy my writings.
And, I really hope you do!
Now, it is time for me to go and write in a "Poet-icized" manner like those long ago “Men of Old” Poets would’ve once long ago done it. They have primarily inspired me to write Poems in a manner that is “Manly” like how they use to write Poetry.
Please stay tuned for more of my Poetry works.
Best and Humble Regards, Steve Walters
(Or the Artist still known as: Manlypoetryman)
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