NPO #3: So I Wanna Talk Heartbreak

Okay, so I lied last time when I said there would only be two poems. Turns out I was actually stupid at least four times that year. Enjoy my well-written stupidity, Ticketholders!

"Love"
Luckiest man alive
Lost in his mind
Path crossed unawares
Lost his mind
Lost his Faith, who
Never leaves his mind
Fears change
Tries to change his mind
Moves on
Gets stuck
Mind over matter
Much matter on his mind.
Love.
                                           -Sean Wilkinson

"His & Hers"
He knew her before they met;
He didn't know her at all.
Her hair, her eyes, her smile--
He wondered what lay behind it all.
He took his time,
He waited too long.
He acted rashly,
He lived cautiously.
His thoughts quiet little insanities,
Screaming of logic and truth.
Love is love,
Hers belongs to another,
His belongs to her still.
                                           -Sean Wilkinson

"In His Head"
Why does he still love her?
"I sort of like you," he said.
"More than a little."
But the truer words remained in his head
Like a love song
in a jukebox, yet to be spread
through the air, or like the girl
from the book he writes that's yet to be read.
Now he can't tell her it was destiny.
"It's insanity," his careful mind said.
Too scared to live his life.
Too scared to ever break bread
with her or ask her out.
Now she's with another instead.
She looks past him,
he stares at her.
His love for her,
still stuck in his head.
                                           -Sean Wilkinson

"Something. Easy."
He wakes with her on his mind.
Man, that girl is something.
He should have loved her.
He thought they could've been something.
Now he spends his time in pursuit
of a way to feel nothing.
And every song he hears, he hates
that it makes him feel something.
He should be able to hate her;
That would make his life easy.
But love is hard, and a hardened heart
doesn't come to him easy.
Tears choke him inside, and breathing
doesn't come to him easy.
How can he ease his pain
if pain is love, and love
does come to him easy?
                                           -Sean Wilkinson

Thanks for enjoying this little trip back through my days of heartbreak, Ticketholders. In a few moments, I will also start up a new Thursday-only column called Ticketverse Throwbacks, a re-posting medium for what remains of my old blog material.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Stay Tuned #55: Goosebumps (Disney+ Season One)

Image
Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster I'm confused, Ticketholders. And disappointed in the lack of originality in visual media over the past few years. On top of the Fear Street trilogy and the TV series I'm reviewing today, I've also been watching the first season of Yellowjackets on Netflix because Paramount+ (like a broken floor scrubber) has a lot of buffering issues. All three are either set in or flash back to the 90s, and include a lot of the same songs and relationship dynamics (troubled same-sex couple, love triangle, toxic relationship, etc.). So the plot points and characters start to bleed together (heh; horror puns...) after awhile. But that doesn't make them bad products on their own merits. By my own actions, my merits (viewer analytics) have diminished significantly this month, so please remember to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, comment your thoughts on the Goosebumps reboot at the bottom of this post, help out my
Read more

Zenescope - Omnibusted #26: Grimm Fairy Tales TPB Volume 10

Image
Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Omnibuster I know that this is the third of these I've done in a row, but I have an established pattern to adhere to, so let's get Omnibusted ...again! As suggested by  Volume Nine , the Grimm Fairy Tales  issues contained in the Volume Ten Trade Paperback will continue to follow the journey of Sela and her companions through Myst. According to the  Zenescope Entertainment Wiki Chronological Reading Order , Volume Ten is also the last before Zenescope's first two big event series ( Myths & Legends  and  The Dream Eater Saga ). And Volume Ten marks the first time since  GFT #49  that an issue (or in this case, an entire Volume of issues) has gone untitled on the credits page. Speaking of The Dream Eater Saga , the zero issue of that series was featured as the short story for Volume Ten, as opposed to past Volumes having original short stories (or in one case so far, a Swimsuit Special) that added lore to the series. But because I wou
Read more

Dragon Blog Daima #23: Chatty

Image
Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Animeister My plan to record footage of me playing the new Vampire Survivors ' Ode to Castlevania DLC didn't pan out the way I wanted (because the update is massive -  or as MasakoX once pronounced it, which feels like a more appropriate expression, "ma- hoo -sive" - and I don't have the time, desire, or phone memory to devote to entire days of recording). But I'm still enjoying the experience of unlocking the new characters (there's a guy with a grenade launcher! A whip that explodes!), discovering the new quality of life changes (there's a map zoom now!), and exploring the environment (Dracula's castle! Hidden forest clearings! Giant bosses! Metroid vania -style progression unlocks! Platforming in a horde survival roguelike‽). And I don't think I'm even halfway done yet! So if you love playing Castlevania (or watching people on the internet play Castlevania ), give Vampire Survivors and the Ode t
Read more