Monday, 23 December 2013

Kris Kringle: Something Morbid??

About a week or two ago, we were discussing this 1933 song, Gloomy Sunday. The piece was composed by a Hungarian named Rezső Seress and is the stuff of urban legends mainly because of its association with a string of suicides and suicide attempts.

And so, aiming for a dark and twisted humor here, (and partly because I'm procrastinating badly on academic matters) I decided to try my incompetent hand on poetry writing. Go ahead say it.. “Daaaaaammmnnn girrrrrl... this is some weird emo, pseudo-goth sh*t.” Yeah, I know. But it's the best I can manage, so yeah. 




Here I sit
gravely terrified
of my mind who's
doing nothing
The nothingness
which are its deeds
result to things surprising.
For in those deeds of idleness,
insidious thoughts unfold
I see myself
succumb to ropes
my flawless neck it holds

***

In times I feel
like Atlas,
I regret a thought
I make
The pain is not
the hardest part
but the crying in
my wake

***

I know of a girl
named Daisy
whose eyes can rival pearls
She had it all,
she always caught
looks both from boys and girls
A week before our
graduation
Li'l Daisy seemed aghast
She shivered like
she's always cold
when Mr. Sheers walks past
There's something wrong
I wondered why
but didn't bother ask
She'd turn me down
anyway
She's got too much friends
for that
But on our last
day of school
Pretty Daisy was nowhere present
A hollow feeling
covered me
I should not have stayed all silent
Because as our batch
tossed forth our hats
charging futures with excitement
Poor Daisy won't be
one of us
All she's got's a mouth with a bullet

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