Anxious Poets Society
A Night in Thought

I. Hearken an Aching Heart
There’s a feeling
deep in my being,
reaching up,
felt in the canals
I made of my body.
Felt in the irregular
heartbeat,
hearts meet.
Light blasts into the
wooden room at a
soft angle
song angels
dance in the dust
I let my tears fall into
the approaching dusk,
and wave goodbye to who I was.
Taking a heavy step forward,
Older, now.
II. An Inquiry
What have you seen?
-All.
Who have you told?
-None.
Why?
III.
Left alone,
Silent throne
-away chances
of mismanaged glances
Save me.
(or something)
Some day,
I’ll be free too.
IV. In-Between
Less pages,
Less patience.
I write to pass the time,
and also to conquer it.
Bison burgers,
and other memories
from a family trip to
another planet we took
when I was still young
enough to believe.
Leave it all
behind you,
is a chorus of love
but you’ll never see it
if you don’t turn
around
once in a while.
Anyway,
I digress,
Confess I wish
I knew more
than
Maybe I shouldn’t,
But then maybe I couldn’t
Reach out and touch you
Which is all I ever wanted
anyway,
see you around.
Even if it’s only another
dream of your pale face.
V.
The only thing to leave you with:
Be certain of uncertainty.
Someone is waiting,
waving for you.
Goodnight to the dark skies
and farewell to the fog.
Turn the lights off,
I can see better that way,
wary of perfection.
VI. Drifting Off to Sleep (The Primal Dream)
Somewhere,
a small boy writes his first poem.
We are all our brothers’ keepers,
secret-seekers,
odds-defeaters,
king-unseaters,
love-repeaters,
and hope-meeters
Someone tell that boy he’s loved.
If you look in the right place,
you’ll notice he was with you all-along.
Fleeting is not a characteristic of night,
you are.
Griffin Hamstead is an undergraduate student at the University of Georgia where he studies English and Sustainability. He is an avid reader, outdoors enthusiast, and aspiring poet and person.
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