Drowning In Fables

-Drowning In Fables-
by Keaton Foster


Stories
Hypothec entities
Of all that is me
Posthumous allegories
Written by a man
Presently breathing
But somehow not living
All of these
Are relatable ideas
Laborious endeavors
Never quite finished
More could be said
More could be expressed
But to me such a thing
As being done
Only comes after death
As before mentioned
Dead is what I am
Least of all
Oh so wondrous
All this does seem
Letting others know
How it is that I feel
And exactly why
Such feelings belong to me
Why they are mine to share
And theirs to take
There are skeptics
Those upon the fence
Asking for further detail
Always expecting more
Than I can give
More than I wish
They’ll never be happy
They’ll never be satisfied
The more if I could give
The more they’d wish
They were not meant
To get any of this
And I’m quite ok with that
I don’t write for them
I write for myself first
I fill all of these pages
So that I may empty my mind
So that I might relieve
The pressure so enshrined
Without such an escape
Without such a way
I brain would explode
My heart would shatter
My soul would be devoured
All of it in one instant
All in one finite moment
A gloriously terrible end
Telling stories is all that I have
The God of my every kingdom
The master of my every inkling
There are but a few of you
Those so moved
Those who understand
Who embrace these words
As not mine
But in reality theirs
I’m thankful for them
For those so brave
I could not do this
As I do
Without them
I am drowning in fables
And every stone that
Is trying to pull me down
In being held up by them
The darkness is always there
Far down below
The surface is closer still
I see some light
When all that was meant
Is a suffocating abundance
Of pristine blackness
There is always a chance
There could be a way to save me
Because even though
I don’t act like it
To be saved is what I
Wish for most of all
Those who understand
Those who lend me a hand
Encourage me as they do
Through kindness and truth
They are my salvation
My ultimate restoration…


Drowning In Fables
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.