I'm like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.
Month: April 2016
What Do You See?
Do you see the difference
between the morning and
the night?
Can you notice the divergence
at a certain stage
of life?
Will you see all that lies
before you, as easily as
your past?
Do you watch for obvious
triggers, knowing behaviors
won’t always last?
Can others see your foibles
as easily as you do
yourself?
Will you shut your eyes
with silence for the sake of
your own health?
@2016 j.g. lewis
April is Poetry Month
something new every day
spread the words
what makes you be?
what makes you believe?
what makes you bold?
what
makes
you belong?
what makes you beneath them?
what makes you bored?
what makes you bare your soul?
what makes you beautiful?
what makes you be the
best
you can
be?
what makes you be something
you are not?
what makes you
you?
@ 2014 j.g. lewis
April is Poetry Month
something new every day
spread the words
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Fractured Silence
Stars have neither the nerve nor
the courtesy of shedding any light.
We walk on streets with names,
but none with faces.
The architecture of emptiness,
I struggle with the night. We exist,
but how, in concrete spaces.
Fractured silence, wilted shadows
precede another day. Our time
pressed beneath glass. Only
a collection, hardly a recollection.
Whether we do
or whether we will,
is this what was meant to be,
is that how I am meant to feel?
Through bitter truth I learn
love lies, bleeding still, unnoticed
then by weary eyes.
Come the morning,
what do you see? Is it
a likely ever after, or a promise
you still can’t believe,
© 2015 j.g. lewis
April is Poetry Month
something new every day
Spread the words
