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My soul tastes like smoke, and smells of rain.

February 28, 2024
By KERMITKREWWWW SILVER, Glens Falls, New York
KERMITKREWWWW SILVER, Glens Falls, New York
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Favorite Quote:
"I get silly past 11 pm (The tears leak down my cheeks, and words flow like a river from my heart)" -Me talking to a friend online


I find I think too often

About so many things

The past

The future

I try in my feeble way to describe the indescribable 

But I am simple

And I am tired 

My soul tastes like smoke

And smells of rain

I am human

And I am so tired. 


The author's comments:

I have synesthesia and I was talking to a friend about the tastes and smells I associate with different people, and they asked what I thought of myself. I told them that my soul tasted like campfire smoke, and smelled like morning rain. And that is how this poem came to be. About the meaning? I find this piece to represent how I may have so many things to do, topics to discuss. Words to put on a page and feelings to pour into work. But I will always be human. I get tired. I always found smoke and rain to be sad smells and flavors, ones representing sorrow and exhaustion but with hope. After a forest is burned, new plants sprout. When a field is flooded, plants and life will return. I am tired, I am human. But I still have hope.


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