Raven’s Wing Poetry

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This poem was written off of this week’s Three Word Wednesday prompt – write a poem with the words “open”, “frequent”, and “someday”. Note: The poem is based off of events in the musical “Rent”. Angel and all other characters mentioned in the poem are from that musical and are the creations of Jonathan Larson (1960 -1996).

-Nicole
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I frequent the Life Support group.
I am there whenever those doors are open,
and the people there are open to
me,
you,
and anybody else who walks through those doors.

Though I am positive,
they help me to be positive:
for I will not lay down and die
while I still have breath in this body.
I will not close my doors and hold blackness
within myself
and swim in its murky, self-piteous, depressive sea;
I try my best to vanish the blackness into thin air
when I drum
when I sing
when I give myself away
and I give things and money away
because they will be of no use
at my final destination
and I want to see the smiles on
your faces.

But sometimes, I cannot vanish this blackness
alone
so I come to release it gently into thin air,
to let it join the inner blackness of everyone else
and we all collectively let it escape –
Collins, me, Gordon, Ali, Pam –
as a soft sable cloud that should live else
but in our hearts.

I wish Roger would come
so that he could release his blackness, his sorrow,
and let it escape in a smoke’s whistle
instead of cooking inside him, pressured
until it hardens his heart to a diamond –
beautiful, yet useless, and useless
to someone speeding towards death on an
HIV train.
But I know he will be here with us –
someday –
as long as we don’t give up on him,
as long as we keep telling him the most important thing
that somebody in our state can hold on to:

no day but today.

Written 6/18/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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