by Bast-et » Thu May 03, 2012 12:16 pm
Owner: ~Bast~
Equid Name: Chardelle
Equid Age: 4
Poem:
Like the beginning of brindle,
Life begins in white;
Like a child born to light.
The early years are clean and pure,
consist of love and life's an open door.
Yet the nature of life is change,
from known to awkward to strange
and bit by bit the colors change
the brindle shapes rearrange,
and what was known becomes the strange
White yeilds to gray
as your eye begins to stray;
purity in childhood grays as well
as the realities of life begin to tell-
the hurt and pain, the heavens and hells
As dawns go down to days,
so whites go down to grays,
and only deeper is the change
as days go past the days.
And brindle stipes change too,
the whites will change their hue
and only darker will they grow
the lower that you go.
The teenage years are darker still,
their grays reflect the deeper chill
the angst and confusion in the core
while light clings to the outer shore.
And then gray will slip to blacks,
once you're gone you can't go back
get rocked by dark seas
and long for the lakes in the past.
adulthood is same to the cold dark gray sea
a heartless, relentless mistress is she
she saps your strength, tries to steal your soul,
but that light; it clings to your outermost core.
And now stripes are close
to the love-hated black
all the wisdom of death,
but the life that it lacks
And so too have humans come close to their death,
the gray is now withered, light leaves by each breath
but the wisdom that's gathered by the time black draws near
is worth even more than that bright newborn's tear.
And then the stripe ends
the fates cut the chord
and down falls the life
into black's dark dischord.
(That was a bit darker than my first poem, but it's more on topic =D
Life begins like the white at the top of the brindling; pure, thin, and with no direction, blown by the wind.
time passes, and death grows a bit clearer; the white is light gray, and the purity of innocence has begun to be corrupted by the realities of life.
As we follow the brindling down, Adulthood is darker still, and the weight of life heavier. The warm peaceful lakes of the past are replaced by the cold demanding mistress of the sea.
and old age is almost black; ironically lit still by the knowledge and wisdom gained through the years. But death comes closer with every breath, and the poem ends in death, as does every person.)
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Bast-et on Fri May 04, 2012 1:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.