Showing posts with label letter poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label letter poem. Show all posts

Sunday, April 19, 2020

NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 19 + April PAD Challenge Day 19: Message to My Past Self

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 Dear fucking moron,
Instead of worrying so much
about what people who don't matter think of you

Instead of always having to buy
The latest and greatest whatever
and spending money like it's going out of style

Instead of worrying about finding
a man to complete you
and hopefully not beat you

Try getting your shit together a little bit
so I don't have to end up broke and broken
cleaning up the remnants of what your out-of-control self
left behind for me to deal with

Your future self

NaPoWriMo: Make a walking archive
I didn't exactly do that. I found an image with a bunch of stuff in it that worked.

April PAD Challenge: Write a message poem.

Sunday, April 16, 2017

NaPoWriMo 2017: Day 16: A Letter


Dear Mal

I still don't understand
And I suppose I never will
The awful thing that's happening
To your wonderful mind

A mind which you, perhaps, did not always
Think was so wonderful
Because sometimes it liked
To play mean tricks on you

It liked to make you think
You needed things you didn't
Like alcohol and cigarettes
It liked to make you think you weren't enough

But in spite of the glitches
Yours was a sharp mind
The chords hit like a hammer
The words cut like a knife

You didn't think you had much to go on
When it came to looks
Your mind is what defined you
Creating the hooks that cooked

We are none of us our body
And our brain is not our self
Still, it's terribly sad
This thing that has happened

To the brilliant brain
Of a humble man
You never said "why me?"
So I'm saying it now

Those who knew him
And those who loved him although we didn't
Demand now to know
Why him?

Love,
Cie




Malcolm Young
Just "Mal" to those who knew him well
(Dad to a daughter and son who loved him very much)
Diagnosed with dementia in 2008 at age 55

He once said that the only time he found peace was when he was playing music
He was a somewhat troubled soul, but he tried not to let his issues become problems for those he cared about