Marvelous Antidotes-Poem.
I look up at the blue sky,
It reminds me of your eyes.
The imagery of your eyes reminds me of your true spoken beautiful lies.
Those lies awaken my memory to all the reasons why.
Why you left.
How bad it hurt.
But how I am able to look back and not feel it anymore.
Because when I look at the street it points out that I moved on.
Like the bus route that comes and the next minute it's gone.
The red light alerts my attention that I am aching for something greater than us.
And as much as I didn’t want to believe this.
You're my first love facade.
But like the baby bird looks back at its mom as it flies out of its nest,
Not knowing it will be the last look she’s ever going to get.
It is bittersweet.
I wanted to hold on to the grief, but couldn't help the grin that shined straight through my teeth.
Telling the entire world that I'm happy with a colossal smile.
Because that’s really the only proof in this life that we have to go off of.
Sort of like the smile on a strangers face as he watches his true lover walk in the door.
It reminds me of a child opening all of his presents,
That just found out there’s still one more.
That kind of happiness doesn’t go unseen.
It fills the entire room with a magical gleam.
It doesn’t desist the second you realize you want more.
Like blowing out the candles before the flame ever torched.
You can’t finish an unstarted war.
And not everything in this life brings chaos and thorns.
The calmness of the shores brings beauty to the land we forget because of the waves.
That only helps myself see the true beauty inside of the scariest caves.
Sort of like allowing someone else to touch my dented soul.
Would be like escaping a prison and never going back there at all.
Rare just like you.
But most people go back to the same things they pursue.
Like the surfer waiting for the perfect swell.
Waits all day knowing that it might come although it possibly never will.
It’s the gamble we take when we have a heart.
Placing our biggest bets on the wrongest cards.
Some roll the dice for their very own needs,
Ending up high and dry incapable of feeling anything that deep.
But a good heart counteracts our most atrocious sins.
And the marvelous antidotes only distract my heart from what could've been.
Right as I feel my smile weaken I see the surfer catch a glorifying wave.
I can feel his gratitude inside of my bones because he waited all day.
That spoke volumes to my heart.
That as long as we believe in true love,
It will knock on our door.
And there will be no medicine nor cure.
When we find that love we have been waiting for.
Written by: Tiffany Bales