Project Create 2013: Day 1 - Poem

July 1st, 1:24am.

Hello! Welcome to my Project Create 2013: Day 1, the premise of which I outlined in my previous blog entry. I presume this will be the easiest day of the challenge...or perhaps the hardest? The start and end of a project are often a mixture of seemingly-impossible and blissfully easy. At this, the start, the world is my oyster; BY WHICH I MEAN THE WORLD IS VERY YUMMY! Nom nom nom...

In all seriousness, it is both easy to choose what to do, because the possibilities are endless, and hard to choose, because the...you get the point.

For day 1, I have chosen to create....a poem!

Poetry is not something I have ever attempted, apart from when I had to at school. The poem I am going to attempt to write today will be a love poem, so this will be a completely new experience for me; I didn't have any sort of relationship of any kind until last year, and even now I can count the number of people that I've kissed on one hand. After cutting two of my fingers off. I don't know why you had to do that, you could have just asked me to hold down two fingers...if anything, the fact I am now missing fingers on that hand makes me less likely to kiss anyone else, because if I can't count that person as kissed on my hand, THEN WHAT IS THE POINT?!

Anyway...the poems I have written thus far in my life have all have been about nature and loneliness - they were the most prominent influences when it came to writing poetry during my school-days. What I am saying, basically, is that this will be a bit of a challenge for me. I have created written pieces that were fuelled by love before - click here to listen to a recording I made of a short-story I wrote inspired by my first foray into love in June last year - but never poetry, so it's both a format I am out of practice with (having not written any poetry for years), as well as being a completely new style within the format.

I am also interested to see how this turns out in comparison to my previous love-inspired piece, which I put a link to above. That piece was written before I had ever kissed anyone, or even held a hand of someone else within my ever decreasing hand; it was a pure, innocent expression of my very first love. Also, when I wrote James and the Poisonous Soufflé last year, I didn't just hold a much more innocent view of love, but of life, too. Will my poem reflect my more pessimistic view of love and life nowadays, or will the power of love conquer all?

Right, enough build-up. Where Is the Love (poem)?

Two

Some people may judge, say we don't fit in,

But I fit so perfectly in your arms,

You hold me close,

You kiss my head, softly,

Telling me "everything will be alright";

I struggle to believe you; scars from the past cause my body to flinch,

While my mind imagines a future worst-case-scenario;

But here with you right now,

Everything,

In this moment,

Is right.

We press our foreheads together,

A natural reaction causing the need for physical contact,

The closeness of two bodies acting as the perfect metaphor for the closeness of two souls,
Your body warms mine; your beauty warms my heart,

As were stare into each-other's eyes, we smile,

We love, 

We smile.

I don't know why you would choose me, I don't know how you could,
But I will be forever grateful for your affection, your love,
Moreover, thank you for your trust, your loyalty,
Your belief that - one day - we will share a better life, together,
Thank you for putting up with my worst, for believing that my best will make it all worthwhile,
Thank you for being every piece of you,
Thank you for loving every piece of me.

There you have it. Day 1: complete. Feel free to leave comments below, or send me a tweet or a message with your thoughts. Join me tomorrow for day 2!

Tom.