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Like an unsteady tread
I come to know
About solace.

The city never sleeps,
But it is always tired.
Eyes shut, don’t look.
I shelter just outside the door.

Between each tread
On stairs too sheer to climb, the gaps expand.
We know already how it ends.
Small things come to mind.
Their particular motion describes
Soft laugh tiring to a smile,
Still misses the precise moment.

Circles of silence yet expand.
Another city
Or another country -
Temperate stairs spirally wind up
Treading unsteady solace.

Fast leaving the later scene
Idiot highways run
Drowsy -
Stumbling once or twice.




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The following comments are for "Unsteady Treads"
by Myth

unsteady solace
we all know that unsteady solace, the one that teaches us to take comfort in the silence that surrounds us...

an affecting portrait of solitude, this, for me at least. calls to mind how we sleepwalk through life, missing our queues, making do, learning to live with uncertainty and accept loneliness…

not sure I’ve understood this in its entirety, I will certainly return… starkly insightful.

( Posted by: AuldMiseryGuts [Member] On: January 29, 2007 )

Insightful Image
The poem reminds me of moments when life is unsteady and the silence eerie. Moments when a dull knife seems to shine the sun into your eyes, blinding and annoying. Certain silences are wanted, some...uncharitable.

( Posted by: Siah [Member] On: January 29, 2007 )





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