Dark Hearts Love Too: OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 4: Purple Phase

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 4: Purple Phase

Purple Phase

From my birthday in 1967

I spent my days

Chasing a purple haze

Wanting to run from myself

I felt too much too deep

The longing inside me for something

For someone I couldn't see

Threatened to tear me apart

I put my emotions in my music

I was drunk most of the time

Wanting to run from life

Wanting to run from myself

Sometimes I got high

But I never went tripping again

After the night the lights fell from the sky

And set my mind to start destructing

My purple phase lasted fourteen years

When my son was born, I knew

He needed his daddy to be clear

Danny boy, you kept me here

I wish I wasn't leaving you behind

Wish I wasn't breaking your heart

Danny, though my mind may forget who you are

I'll never forget you in my soul

When the time comes for you

To pass from this world

I'll be waiting there for my children

Beyond the purple haze

Written by Gerry Clifford

Poetry style: Biography

Notes:

The poem was finished by Gerry on 12 December 2011, his sixtieth birthday, shortly after the decision to move him to Candlelight Ridge Care Home due to his increasing cognition loss. It took him five days to create.

Photoshop manipulation by The Real Cie

2 comments:

Morgan DragonwillowOctober 4, 2016 at 9:37 PM
I felt this in my marrow. Thank you for sharing this piece with us.
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