Stuck

I dreamt about the future.
Unravelling and revealing.
Yet all they do is talk it back.
I’d been beyond before.
Far away and out of reach.
Such things I’d seen.
Now the stars drip down like lies off a tongue.
Hold it and eat them. Consume.
Cough.
Try to let me in again, though a distant world away.
An outcast to the tribe.
This could be the saddest day.
And though I get lyrical, as I always will.
Tarred and caught in the well-placed trap.
I ask that you touch me once more.
I am trying.
Come walk these shoes and wear this soul.
Give me new direction.
So easy to get stuck.
But not the other way around.

 

 

06/04/202210/03/2022 by Mark Ryan Categories: sad, travel, unhappyTags: animals, caught, disillusioned, food, hare, hunted, hunting, lies, mundane, poem, Poetry, soul, stuck, trapped 3 Comments

Hunter

Into your eyes my fate remains.
Locked into that shifting ice.
Beautiful time trapped in glass.
Catching the light in amber eyes.
Hunted while you wait.
A bird in your paw.
Blood on your tongue.
The bones already in your stomach.
As the snow covers your tracks, the love leaked out, marking where we once were. Leaving the trail for others to know our fate, and to never come this way where the wolves are at play.

 

 

30/12/202130/12/2021 by Mark Ryan Categories: birds, love, wolvesTags: art, bird, blood, feathers, hunted, hunter, love, nature, poem, Poetry, snow, wolf, wolves 23 Comments

Hunted

Are you haunted or hunted?
Crossing streams of inky despair.
Trying to slip away into the night.
A hunted animal.
Arrow marked and sought out.
It is not the jungle you wish to return to.
The scraping spires of the city is the one you hope to leave.
But they won’t let you be.
You’re a hunted animal.
Wiping tears on leaves as you run.
Putting out the forest fires.
But soon your heart tires.
Waiting for collapse.
Still hunted.
Still haunted.
On the edge of extinction.

17/11/202107/10/2021 by Mark Ryan Categories: animals, city, escapeTags: animals, city, escape, fire, forest, hunted, hunter, hunting, poem, Poetry, running, tears Leave a comment