Metaphorically Speaking by Kyoushikyoku, literature
Literature
Metaphorically Speaking
My soul is my soul; nothing less, nothing more.
Not the sky, not the earth, no, not a single metaphor!
My soul is not a fire, burning with passion,
My soul is not the ocean in any form or fashion.
My soul is not the dark abyss of space,
Nor is it the smile on a happy face.
My soul is not an ice cream cone on a summer's day,
Or any of the crazy things that you might say!
My soul is not a "timeless train station,"
For nothing of that sort runs through my imagination.
My soul is not a "winding, endless path,"
Nor the "raging seas" with all its wrath.
No, not a storybook that ends "happily ever after,"
Or the sound of a child's merri