something a bit different…
Posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7:52pm
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Here is my attempt at a poem for the first time in…years. Its about my car crash that I have written about previously here on this blog. Let me know what you think!
Demon Days
I used to love that song,
blasting out the lyrics-
Me and Damon Albarn
live on stage in my Citroen Saxo,
Dueting on my way to work
Over the Rhigos mountain,
No fear, no concern.
The hailstones came from nowhere,
like tears when a child falls.
The car a toy,
My wheel ruling me, spinning so fast,
Like the ones at the arcades.
But it will stop- money gone, end of game.
I don’t stop.
I see the edge in the distance,
enticing me to go over.
I see the headlines in the paper
‘young woman dies on dangerous road’
‘Was it suicide? Was it her fault?’
Drive in to the side, to the cliff.
You will be safe, a voice in my head.
Whose voice? His voice?
‘In these demon days
It’s so cold inside
So hard for a good soul to survive’
I hang upside down in my seat,
That song still going,
taking over the landscape,
escaping through broken windows.
I have to get out,
Stop this music, walk away.
Bethan, mae rhywfaint o dywyllwch yno-wel, y dylwn i wedi dyfalu gan y teitl! Hyd yn oed ystyried hynny mai ei bod yn gerdd dywyll. Mae okaf am un adnod yw yr u gorau i mi. Bach o ddirgel. Pwy yw y ‘he’, y demon efallai- anogi ti ymlacio yn y car wrth meddwl fyddet ti’n saff///? Eisiau gweld rhagor nawr.
Thanks Bethan. Our daughter has just started a new post with Sheppards Chemists in Treorci and she is travelling that road every day.
I will give her this timely warning.