The Pedestrian Poet » white http://www.multer.com/people/monica Everyday a new poem, story, or photo telling the story of humanity Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:22:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Black and White http://www.multer.com/people/monica/2011/black-and-white/ http://www.multer.com/people/monica/2011/black-and-white/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:26:38 +0000 monica http://www.multer.com/people/monica/?p=2792

]]> http://www.multer.com/people/monica/2011/black-and-white/feed/ 0 Hospital Room (Butterfly) http://www.multer.com/people/monica/2010/hospital-room-butterfly/ http://www.multer.com/people/monica/2010/hospital-room-butterfly/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:13:23 +0000 monica http://www.multer.com/people/monica/?p=2634 Winter is waiting
Like an old hospital room
White and clean
Yet so foreboding
They will wash the walls
Of my presence
Scrub away
Until there is nothing left of me
Strip down my pictures
Replace them with plaster
A life cast of me
Molded too tight
Until I cannot breathe
Suffocating and gasping for air
Inside a white washed room
Sterilized of life
Where dolls sit
With clairvoyant glassy eyes
Of Ovid’s butterfly
Fluttering helplessly
Settling down
In a flourish of color
Only to die slowly
Caught in the grip
Of Winter’s cold fist
Such an absence
Such a silence
It deafens me
Echoing off white walls
The screams of the plastered casts
Of those who came before me
Faces protruding like the gates of hell
Leaving me too blind to see
Staring blankly
At the horror before me
I wonder why I am here
Why I wound up
In this white washed room
Suffocating in a prison
With no windows
No sound
Except the noise of madness
And the sound
Of a rotting brain
As the butterfly takes its last gasps
You left me here
To slowly decay
I watch the butterfly
Curl, wither, and deform
From the beauty it had been
Watching my fate
Unfurl before me
With a merciless slowness
I am waiting now
For the white to capture me
To whisk me away
Into some fairytale dream
A reprieve of this white washed room
But the butterfly’s ashes
Lay around me
Staining my palms
It will never leave me
Winter is here
With its worn cold hands
I refuse to go with you
But I cannot stay
Take me with you butterfly
For where I am going
I hoped I would never be
See you on the other side
Of this damned eternity
For now I will hope for a better destiny
And try to avoid the inevitable
By hiding behind the mask
Of a butterfly’s face
In plain sight
A flourish of color in a white room
Waiting for fate to find me

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]]> http://www.multer.com/people/monica/2010/blooming/feed/ 0 Creeper Photo: Carousel Wedding http://www.multer.com/people/monica/2009/creeper-photo-carousel-wedding/ http://www.multer.com/people/monica/2009/creeper-photo-carousel-wedding/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:46:51 +0000 monica http://www.multer.com/people/monica/?p=1107 IMG_8432

I guess you got married today, congratulations. You waited in line like everyone else with all your bridesmaids around you. I wonder how it feels, did you feel free or did you know this might be your last moment of childhood leaving you behind. I loved your roses and I bet your wedding was beautiful. I wish you a good marriage and good luck because not everything will be a carousel ride.

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