2009
09.08

I was in a really introspective mood today

Totally deep.

I’ve been thinking pretty hard about my childhood

And how I got to be the person I am today

Like those experiences that stay with you forever

That’s kind of like what I was thinking about.


Like this one time Danny and I were doing nitrous in the park behind this highschool

That we didn’t even go to. We were talking about this girl I thought

I might be possibly entertaining the idea of considering being attracted to, sometimes

Like after a drink or two.


And  told him that maybe it wasn’t really her that I was attracted to

But rather just me trying to escape the rigors of adolescence -

Like the crushing loneliness and feelings of inadequacy, the nervousness

Of always being horny,  or hungry

Or both

And the bad skin.


And he goes, ‘Maybe.’


© Shannon Peil, 2009
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2009
09.08

Enamored with you

infatuated -

Uncaring of what everyone said

head over heels,


I fell for you like a lemming off a cliff.

© Shannon Peil, 2009
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2009
09.08

The most gorgeous silence never heard

Whistling as forgotten whispers choke the words

Silence grasping at eternity like a dark phantasm

Echoing over windblown mountains, settling in the deepest chasms

Laying rest to life to begin anew

Taking everything back from us, an inevitability long overdue

The calm waters will slap lightly upon virgin shores

The dark winds of quiet blowing evermore

As humanity leaves to make room for something new.


© Shannon Peil, 2009
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