[UliHarp]

I forget how much poetry I have stored away. I figured I'd post one with nothing to do with insomnia, so I picked one of my more recent ones. I believe I wrote this after one of my “where-did-my-youth-go-and-why-do-I-feel-old” musings. It's hard to explain what exactly those are, so instead, here's that poem:

Whence comes the fall of innocence?

What puzzle box must be opened to usher

The lovely gloaming that is corruption

Into a once naïve and tender soul?

Is it the first tangle of fleshy bodies?

The wrath and wonder of first love

In all its glory of grotesque formation

That strips the virgin of her piousness?

Is it when eyes are first cast upon death?

The pallor of the departed in glassy pupils

Staining the bereaved with solemnity

Which entangles the mind with mortality?

Whence comes the salvation of this ideal

If redemption is at all attainable?

Is it the destruction of romantic expectations?

Those once held so firmly in regard

Revealed to be fallible and vulnerable

That takes the perfection one sees in others?

Is it when famine and disease flourish?

When one’s desire to aide the suffering

Is thwarted by high mountains and seas

That delves one into existential depression?

Whence comes the fall of innocence?

The metamorphosis of the pure to the imbued

The defining moment of one’s psyche

That rite of passage into the uncertain?

Whence comes the fall of innocence

If it belies the human mind at all?

[Martin Reed]

I like it. It's a really interesting piece and really explores the question of what triggers this big shift in our lives from innocence to 'battle-scarred'!

Thanks for sharing.

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[UliHarp]

Thank you for the feedback; it's always nice to hear. 🙂

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