The sweet sweet sun’s coming down hard
What do we do with unmet desire?
Let it lick the iris in the eye
& glaze at the yellow mile
stretched ahead the tip of your nose
as if something could rest for once.
A foreign lie that takes time to come home.
Damascus is upon my gentle spirit &
makes me weak with visions.
The bending arms & legs
Have born the weight only shortly
before, too, succumbing to
the pleasure of letting go.
A well-spoken truth that turns its back.
Do I dare peer into the masked face?
Or send my soul on its own while I wait--
Not for the return, but the final broken
Moment of disgusted surrender
when all the purity I didn’t have
is gone once & for all.
A crisp ethic that has many names.
Author Bio:
Chelsea Grinstead is not concerned with where she ends up. God is her bread and butter. She graduated from University of Florida with a bachelor’s in journalism. She loves sunshine, reading, writing, yoga, and politics. She wants to go back to UF or maybe travel. She would love to be a missionary working in the developing world—but she wouldn’t mind being on bestseller lists either. To her, each day is a gift and an opportunity to be spiritual, being in oneness with God and truly connecting with people on that level. Poetry is how her mind works and is a natural way she expresses herself. When she reads others’ poetry, the pain or sorrow inside her is translated to endless beauty. Poetry is her land.
What do we do with unmet desire?
Let it lick the iris in the eye
& glaze at the yellow mile
stretched ahead the tip of your nose
as if something could rest for once.
A foreign lie that takes time to come home.
Damascus is upon my gentle spirit &
makes me weak with visions.
The bending arms & legs
Have born the weight only shortly
before, too, succumbing to
the pleasure of letting go.
A well-spoken truth that turns its back.
Do I dare peer into the masked face?
Or send my soul on its own while I wait--
Not for the return, but the final broken
Moment of disgusted surrender
when all the purity I didn’t have
is gone once & for all.
A crisp ethic that has many names.
Author Bio:
Chelsea Grinstead is not concerned with where she ends up. God is her bread and butter. She graduated from University of Florida with a bachelor’s in journalism. She loves sunshine, reading, writing, yoga, and politics. She wants to go back to UF or maybe travel. She would love to be a missionary working in the developing world—but she wouldn’t mind being on bestseller lists either. To her, each day is a gift and an opportunity to be spiritual, being in oneness with God and truly connecting with people on that level. Poetry is how her mind works and is a natural way she expresses herself. When she reads others’ poetry, the pain or sorrow inside her is translated to endless beauty. Poetry is her land.
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