Apr 22

Apr 22 4 U - NaPoWriMo Day #22

NaPoWriMo2016, Poetry2016

Obviously inspired by Prince's untimely passing. I don't know how I feel about the quality of this one. I just wrote it as it was inspired and left it as is. I don't know when a real, true, worthy Prince tribute will be naturally inspired, or if anything could ever be a worthy tribute to his genius, but I don't want to force it. For now, this is my purple tear-stained letter to the one who introduced me to the fire of the stage.

4 U

What does it mean
when UR energy's
still living in me?
When the echoes
of electricity
still flash
like lightning?

But I am asleep.
Dead to my surroundings.
I'm faltering and floundering
in fitful, painful dreams,
and I don't know what
the point could B.

Not if
I die
here
2.

Not if I die
2 soon
like
U.

Wasn't there a reason?
Wasn't there a time?
I could have sworn
I wanted it enough
to build it with my mind.

But now
UR gone
and I'm
clean out
of time.

If letting go
was the lesson,
why instill
so much passion?

But if God is love,
then take me with U.
I'll love the best
and worst sides of U.
I'll never again
B blind 2 the truth.
And if we live again,
I'm coming back down
4 U.