Repetition By Phil Kaye

I decided to change it up a little bit and share one of my favorite pieces! I stumbled upon this poem one day, and I am so grateful. I feel like so much time is wasted in the mundane routine we all create for ourselves and this poem seemed to really illustrate that. It's so easy to get wrapped up in school, work and friends that we forget to enjoy life. Don't get so wrapped up in the routine. I hope you enjoy this poem just as much as I did and use it as a reminder to live!

I remember the bed just floating there.

Apart, apart, apart, apart.

My mother taught me this trick

If you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning

For example:

Homework, homework, homework, homework, 

homework, homework, homework, homework, homework

See, nothing

Our existence, she said, is the same way.

You watch the sun set too often, it just becomes 6 PM

You make the same mistake over and over; you’ll stop calling it a mistake

If you just

wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up,

one day you’ll forget why

Nothing is forever, she said

My parents left each other when I was 7 years old

Before their last argument they sent me off to the neighbor’s house,

like some astronaut jettisoned from the shuttle.

When I came back there was no gravity in our home, beds floating

I imagined it as an accident, that when I left

They whispered to each other “I love you” so many times over

that they forgot what it meant

Family, family, family, family, family, family

My mother taught me this trick

If you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning

This became my favorite game

It made the sting of words evaporate.

Separation, separation, separation;

see, nothing

Apart, apart, apart;

see, nothing