Gray and misty

Like snow-filled clouds,

Ready to open their floodgates

And pour out crystallized hope;

With one difference.

I am not like snow clouds

In just a single way-

I am filled with despair

Instead of hope.

The tips of my fingers

Drifting away, like

Fog when the sun rises,

But without the hope

Of a new day.

I am a fading soul,

Flying away

As if I never existed.

im just trying to think of a poem

Faded

 

faded 

like the memory of the day we met

in preschool

faded 

like the chocolate ice-cream stain

on my favorite shirt.

Faded 

like the blue flowers on your mother's

apron that she wears while calling you into dinner

faded

like the pink paint on the stone bench 

where we sat when our childhood faded into adolscence

adolescence faded into adulthood

faded 

like my wedding dress 

from our wedding

faded

like our old memories which dont remember much

faded 

like your grave

where i slap another faded heart sticker 

to remind you, my faded freind 

that you are still loved.

A faded love. 

sry for postng so man ynew prompt' coments i jst rally like rding the potry!

Wilted Away-

I remember

the bright colors

The pink

the purple

the orange

the red

 

I remember

the vibrant leaves

olive green

glossy

bright

 

I remember

the colorful

realm

of flowers

 

I remember

the colors

the vibrant 

colors

shining

twisting

changing

shifting

 

I remember

the attentive

flowers

the leaves

bouncing

as they nodded

their heads

 

but now

the garden

no longer

exists

just fields 

of endless

black

 

of the color

I once saw

there is no more

 

of the nodding heads

and the bouncing leaves

and the vibrant colors

that listened to me

there

is

no

more.

 

I wish they could still be here

I wish this still could be my home

but here

here 

can no longer

be 

my home

 

endless days

of wandering

i will never

find

a place

as colorful

as the secret

garden

i once

resided

in

 

i will never find

a place

as beautiful

as shining

as vibrant

as that garden

that listened

to my endless

words

 

my wings

no longer

contain color

 

the blackness

has swallowed

them

 

the vibrant colors

no longer

exist

 

nowhere else

will there be

another

secret

garden. 

 

I can feel my soul

withering

away

as the last remnants

the last pieces

of broken

color

fade

away

into

the

dark

 

my soul goes with them

i can feel the broken pieces

flying

away

into the dark

 

there will never be a secret garden

as beautiful

as the one

i saw

 

and i 

i will remember it

forever.  

I feel like there's something missing from this... But I can't find it and the deadline keeps getting closer, so I'll just post it.

~~~

Faded

i am

the unknown soldier, and

i am

faded.

i am

a ghost,

haunting marble,

hunting stone,

rifle cocked,

forever aimless,

no-one left

to shoot,

no one left

to die,

i am

faded

i am 

immortalized,

gold and marble

and preserved

memories, yet

i am

faded.

my tomb is

kingly, regal, and

our proudest leaders

have paid me

their respects.

i am

the unknown soldier,

buried deep

in stone, and

i am

so faded,

more than you will ever

believe,

i am

so faded,

faded,

dust. 

i am

only a symbol,

no person at all,

this unknown soldier

is a thousand people,

a thousand

dead unknowns,

but

not

me. 

my name

is known,

i am

Michael

Joseph

Blassie, and

i am

known, yet 

i've faded

all the same, 

faded

behind marble,

and flowers,

and "here rests

in honored glory",

faded

behind salutes

and bowed heads

and an honor guard 

not here to honor,

faded

behind a marble façade,

behind wreaths

laid by the presidents,

behind tears and

words of bravery,

faded

behind the unknown.

and yet,

i am

known, because

i am

Michael

Joseph

Blassie, and

i am

both known

and faded

at once. 

aaaa sorry lizards! I, uh, comepletly forgot about this,,

I have an eye appointment in literally five minutes so sorry this is short-

 

Honerable Mention: Hawthorne!

Third Place: Lumi!

Second Place: NightSky! 

First Place: Snazzycakes! 

 

I wish I had more time but this is all akgdugedghjgwdjhsfs 

Since Snazzy has already judged, could NightSky judge?  

OKAY BYE I HAVE TO GO NOW BUT CONGRATS SNAZZY AND NIGHTSKY