I Am Not Relative

Just added a video of myself reciting this on Youtube, which has been a fear of mine. If you have an extra moment please check out my first poem video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=638Y9GFvYgI
I Am Not Relative

Look into my eyes,
Not at the lies
Beyond this disguise

Past the mask the multitude wears
That is conformity everyone shares

I am not relative

I am unique
Because of what I think

Thoughts and feelings that are my own
Bundled together as ideas, not shown

What makes you, you

Is not what makes me, me
So why think of people relatively

© 2013 Sean LaSalvia/Poetic Clarity

The First Agreement

My submission for Open Link Monday is The First Agreement! For those who don't know, The Four Agreements is a book about personal freedom. It follows Toltec teachings for living a peaceful and mindful life. I would highly recommend checking it out. 

The First Agreement

 

We all have the ability

To cast a magic spell

This spell can send a person

To heaven or hell

Figuratively, of course

But hell is hell

A mental state; that perpetuates

These evil forces

Bringing you down in such a way

You can’t help but enforce it

This magic, this force

We all wield

It is the word

Now the word isn’t simply a symbol

Or sound

Regardless of language

This power is around

Spreading black magic

With the gossip we speak

But there is an alternative

That one can seek

It is impeccability of the word

Speaking like no one has ever heard

But to control this power

One must prepare

Remember the word is God

So handle with care

© 2014 Sean LaSalvia/Poetic Clarity

 

D.D.

I am a huge fan of The Weeknd and he did a cover for Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson. This song is inspired by it. For those interested here is a link to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3g6rI31Dmk

I’ve been here times before,

But I was too blind to see

Every day’s remorse

Repeated endlessly

Haunted by mistakes

Without learning a thing

My angel’s song has stopped

Now she cannot sing

Timid from the start

Spiral deeper than deep

Unattached from the world

And too tired to sleep

Everyday lingers on

Each worse than the last

Only cure I can see

Is to change the past 

© 2014 Sean LaSalvia/Poetic Clarity

Locked Away

Boy! Re-reading this really hit home! I wrote this last year and while I do still find much in common with this poem, my attitude is most certainly more optimistic. Hope you all enjoy :)

Dizzyingly disconnected from the world I inhabit

Reality is so close I can almost grab it

But with a mind clouded by haze

I stumble over words, and destroy a phrase

Sometimes it’s hard to see meaning in this

A life unfulfilled; away its been pissed

The times that days are clear

Are welcome changes that I fear

Not because clarity is something to despise

It’s a revelation I’d rather not realize

Because the days that follow are the worst of all

An attainment, in which I wish to stall

It’s an awful reminder of what one can be

When locked in a cage and never set free

© 2014 Sean LaSalvia/Poetic Clarity