Waiting for the Fall

I am the last male in my family, both sons are gay, and one is far from sane. My daughter appears okay and is succeeding. There have been recurring patterns of select members of my family having signicant problems with abnormal behaviour. I guess, nature is doing the ultimate pruning.

Genetic Identity
Wild Branch's personality
Deviating from the staid family roots
Tranquility juxtaposed with insanity

Conflicted with the Hyena howls
Of Addictive personalities
And Schizophrenic tendencies
Wailing the cries of alcohol induced fantasies

Brush strokes of angry outbursts
Paint a picture that deviates
From the perfect image
The family longs to parlay

As we dangle tenuously
From this dysfunctional branch of the tree
With fragile tendrils of stability
Waiting for the wind

Blowing from Satan's castle
That dooms its victims
With a future of clouded vision
And a skewed sense of reality

The cries and wails
Of the fallen fill our ears
We weep tears of futility
And feel consumed with despair

Fear wells within
Of who will be the next to fall,
From the slowly dying tree
Disintegrating before us

1- Rene' on Jan. 12 2008

Given the explanation before the poem, it all rigns through loud and clear. You did a great job with the pain and expectations of 'Waiting for the Fall'. One misspelling, 'dieing' should be 'dying'(it is one those strange little verbs that goes outside the rules!). Well written!

----- could someone turn the world back over, I'm getting dizzy!

I am orbiting, I don't know where, but I am orbiting something!

2- Anstey on Jan. 12 2008

Hey Kee,

This is a good piece. I'd be interested to see how that would hold up without the intro. I think it'd be fine. I enjoyed the background information though. Which makes me think, perhaps, it should be worked into the poem. Just a thought.

Fondly,

stephan

3- Kzealy on Jan. 12 2008

Stephan I will look at working the comment into the body, I am not sure how it will work, so I am going to post as it a separate entry when i am done. Thanks for the comment.

----- No one Can make you feel inferior without your consent.

No one Can make you feel inferior without your consent.