Sunday, April 6, 2014

Assignment 21: Poem

For a Reason
Brenna Thummler

It all happens for a reason.
Dad screams
Until you cry
When you cry
Mom wonders why
Parents hassle
Parents hound
Bringing tears by the pound
And not one tissue left
For you to blow your nose
There’s reason I suppose.

It all happens for a reason.
Doctor says you
Have the flu
Have a syndrome
Have a cancer
Oh!
And several mental issues
Like depression
Or aggression
Anxiety for
Society
That you can’t help but expose
There’s reason I suppose.

It all happens for a reason.
Your push forward
Through dark gray
Further from the
Light of day
Just a step
Away from black
And you can’t find
Your way back
And the odors that will
Guide you home -
You’re allergic to those
There’s reason I suppose.

It all happens for a reason.
You make friends
Who won’t accept you
Fail to give and
They forget you
In the theater of
The all-aloners
Introverters
Never-speakers
You can only search
For friends within
The empty rows
There’s reason I suppose.

It all happens for a reason
You fall deep, deep, deep
For the King of healing Hearts
A man that could save you
But instead just betrays you
So you settle
For the silver
One that blames you
One that shames you
One that haunts you
One that taunts you
Calls you fat
Calls you weak
Until you starve
Refuse to eat
Until you’re drowning in your clothes
There’s reason I suppose.

It all happens for a reason
You hang by a thread
Feels like hanging
Like the dead
Then you’re scissored:
Blood clotted lungs
You’re told you’ll never make it
Your final song has been sung

But you live.

Someday you may
Sing again.
Feel again.
Fight again.
Be right again.
And even if you’re
Stuck down low
As if the picture froze
Well that’s the way life goes

There’s reason I suppose.



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