Hollow Pear
September 21st, 2007 (Poetry)Lights are flashing all around
I hear nothing but the sound
Of sirens in the distance
On they scream into the night
I’m starting to remember the fight
That got me here now
Fists flew fast
I felt like this brawl would last
Too long for me to survive
Hair pulled and shins kicked
I knew if I got licked
It’s over for me tonight.
For what lay silent in my hand
Was a hollow pear and
One that would not go bad
In that hollow space was hidden a green
Piece of paper that would not mean
Anything unless he could read the code
Back to the fight
He punched me right
Square in the nose
As my vision blurred
I felt the strangest urge
To take a bite of the pear
The taste of plastic filled my lungs
As the warmth of alcohol hung
In the tunnel of my throat
I began to dream of fairies
And trolls and leprechauns and hairy
Beasts that I was fighting through the night
On and on, a whirlwind of thoughts
Finally stopped
In the realization that the code was safe
As I lay on the cold earth
Gasping for breath
I felt more alive than I ever have
There was life in the survival
There was pain
But I was alive
I don’t totally understand this poem/song. But I usually don’t understand most poetry in general. Did Andy beat you up again? ;o)
Veery interesting. It’ll be fun to hear what it ends up sounding like once it’s all put together. You’re so creative.
Hmm….I’m not really sure if I could explain this one – I basically just wrote the first thing that came to mind. It is actually just words for a song that we were working on the music for at one point, but that seems to have gone on the back burner for now. Don’t read into it too much as I really had no intended meaning.
Interesting. I like doing that too–writing whatever comes to my head. There’s a word for that, but I can’t think of what it is…free association or something. I enjoyed the poem!
this is a little scary to me–couldn’t figure out if the green pear was good or bad (absinthe?) could be spiritual warfare, but maybe not….will you explain it?
or not…..