Introducing Teen Poetry!
Welcome to the first episode of Teen Poetry, the video podcast featuring poems written as a teenager and read as an adult! Unless otherwise noted, all teen poetry in this show will be from the hundreds I wrote in the early 1980′s as a fourteen year old boy.
This Episode’s Poem
“Empathy Friendship”
The phone rang, the Doors stopped
I left my work to answer
Even as my mother called me out.
From my friend’s voice I knew
Something was wrong. He told me
His girlfriend was leaving
He projected his inner pain, I consoled him.
He hung up. I returned to my work.
From the air around me I felt my mind bend.
Feelings of frustration and helplessness
In my mind’s eye I experienced my brother’s pain.
How simple humans are
Our hopes waxing and waning even as Luna’s.
Temporary love is our perpetual curse.
How complex humans are
Feelings hidden ‘neath a brick mask
Yet stripped clean by those close.
Without friendship the valve would remain
Closed.
Eternally
07-16-1981
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Teen Poetry Episode One: Empathy Friendship by Matthew Wayne Selznick is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
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