Apartment by Amber Gristak

Often times this blog is inundated with the politics of the day so today I would like to change some of this,by highlighting some more of the arts. I have in the past posted many musical artist and quotes but never any literary artist.

So today I want to highlight some poetry that was suggested by one of my blog readers..I am not into poetry very much but this one is worth the read! It is about the trials most young people have growing up in a big city like Manhattan or even a small one. The daily reflections of life with its debts and small apartments!



Apartment

by Amber Gristak

This apartment isn’t mine
Just a pause in a journey
Of a time

These past days Equal a space,
too, far and between Better times

Something, I have to accept
A legal monopoly I have to play
Man made money

Spent to simplify
Individual persona
Structures built by disenchanted
Used as comfort
Doctored perception
Injected acceptably
This account is useless
Overdrawn to remind
I am naive
Misled to believe in more
Confused to work and accumulate
A debt

I regret my regret
I echo energy
Graceless mannerisms
I cannot put to past tense
Stronger and stronger, I am not dead
All to have, I have overcome
I do not lie, but I have learned to hide
My modern animalistic tendency
To rationalization
A sin, I let set inside
Out for air
Breathe of haze
Divinity
I need intervention
Souls at rest to speak
Guide
Give me strength
What’s real?
I want it now
Have I not learned enough?
When is then?

Serenity of human sorts
Awareness and conscious living
Repeat in chant
Not the prayer
I need the remedy Bottled, packaged and contained
Inward not out
I search to find
Freedom


If you like this poem please visit Ambers website

http://www.ambergristak.com/