Nowhere Man

• Artist: Ryosei_Hime
• Description: About my father.
• Date: 03/24/2009
• Tags: nowhere father

at the age of five
I went to the top of the stair
there was a man I knew once
but he was no longer there

I returned once more
on the day I turned ten
to find that I was alone
with this Nowhere Man again

his Nowhere words were empty
his eyes of vacant blue
this Nowhere, absent longing
only grew and grew

when age fifteen I reached
I sat on the stair below
understanding at last
this Nowhere Man a foe

this Nowhere Man, Nowhere voice,
lied in silence and pain
and his absent words became shackles
fetters, cuffs, and chains

today I am twenty-two
I've drowned in empty tears
but, Nowhere Man, I've decided
you've made me cry for too many years.

Comments

[Mistress InDEpEnDenT]

Beautiful!!!!

[Phinagin2000]

deep and sad, thank you for sharing. i like to try to understand how others grew up in horrid states like this.

[UC Poika]

Very touching

[Roxxi Renegade]

I really like your poem and I figured out what your poem was about by the second stanza (pat on the back for me because I didn't even look at the discription) but anyway it's a very nice poem! 5 stars!!!!