Pandora’s Box

Pandora’s Box

Once again we close the lid and hide it
Somewhere out of sight, this time
Vowing that it would be the last time
That we ever look back.
But just as our fingers leave the lid, we hear

A cacophony of voices screaming.
Do they come from within the box? Or are they
Reverberating within the very cells of our hearts?
We shut them out, hands clamped in desperation
Over our ears;
The screams resound within.

I scream a different tune
To drown out the pain – my daily anaesthetic
To erase the notes that you’ve etched onto
The manuscript of my soul; to ignore
The chaos within my heart.

It calls me – it draws me in;
This inexplicable magnetic force that pulls
Like a rubber-band. The further I run, the more
I am thrown backwards. It is my constant
Reminder of my humanity to cry
Every night after a day of plastic
Smiles.

These invisible chains I cannot break,
Trail behind me like arteries, feeding me;
Sustaining me with lifeblood
And poison. Somehow,
Some way or another, I must disconnect
And, like a domestic bird, fly away
To die in the wilderness.

Deep within this box, the tender lips
Have turned to ash; the melodious voice
Now the whisper of a fresh breeze;
And your poetry now an epitaph
Forever engraved
Upon the cold marble of my heart.

Hello world!

Alright I got the post title from the title of the post that WordPress.com posted for me (which I deleted). It sounds cute enough, I guess.

I don’t know why I didn’t start this project earlier. Gerald has been asking me why I have yet to publish any of my poetry openly. The most that I’ve done is to publish them on my blog, which has pretty strict privacy settings. Even Chew has a deviantart account dedicated solely to his poetry. So I thought “why not?”

I’ve got a whole load of stuff in my growing collection. The ones that you see here are those that I deem as good enough to see the light of publication. Lately, I haven’t been writing much, so the later poems (2009 and onward) are pretty much published as they are written when they are written (or otherwise stated).

My poems are largely personal, but I hope they strike a chord with whoever happens to chance upon this little poetry blog of mine. We’ll see how everything goes. Feel free to drop comments to tell me what you like and don’t like about my poems!

Regards,
Charis