| DESPITE Poems by Gideon Sinke DespiteI had a string of lovers under whose covers I thought I could hide. I condemned myself to romance and love hard and soft places long and smiley faces and in you I could confide. With you I was different there was no respite I had a killer heart so vast and so wide but I didn’t love you for my own love but rather despite. Floatinga few years will go by slowly growing like trees in a line and you will be passing by floating, monumentally. I paid you back in kind for taking away my heart and my mind but inevitably, I was going downstream. I questioned all cut down the trees planted new ones amongst the stumps it was all so seemingly progressive. and years went by my trees growing, slowly the stumps overgrown the line fully in bloom and you just passed by floating, monumentally ***I write poetry Not because I am happy or for my lamentations of life My soul’s voice drowns those out Leaving them like dried or withered fruit. Why compose prose about the vine When the tree’s rotten at the root? No, I author verse for each word reminds me of who I once was and will never be again. Solitary manIt’s not who you are It is what you do The blanket your mother put over you And the touch of salty edge you got from your father. Me, I’ve always been a solitary man of the lonely kind no better than the solitude from which I ran and the saltiness from whom I tried to hide. don’t you see, that is why we must argue it’s why we must fight it’s why you will depart and leave me behind. |
| Gideon Sinke (1991) is a theoretical sociologist and poet from the Netherlands. He writes non-fiction political commentary for his blog, short stories and poems. He is currently working on his first novel. His poems are often of personal nature and therapeutic in purpose. Like many in this day and age he battles a profound notion of alienation and perceived purposelessness in a world that supposedly is his oyster. |
