- Julia Ferreira
“Soul Searching”
This poem was originally published on The Pittsburgher’s predecessor, The Dog Door Cultural.
You can’t tell me we only experience this once
this slice of universal bliss we were all placed into
A white bird carrying us through the clouds upon a basket
A silk bow
A miracle gift and let her have blue eyes
for him, perhaps brown
You mean to tell me I only hold the hands of my love
for 100 years
I only get miniscule moments of smiles and iron deficient skin
My eyes could water the plants of millions
What should come next
A chapel cradles these answers or so we hope
God rejoice us
Allow us to come home
Or will we return some day we must ponder
I wish to know you father for centuries
Mother hold me as the child I am
Growth is frightening
when we are unaware of what succumbs
Rock me back and forth
Let me into her soul once more
I need the warmth of an October shower
I necessitate the cold tiled toes
The January blues and I miss her so much
How are we to only be once in a lifetime souls
I only know this small world as much as it knows me
-what comes after this? ▲
Julia Ferreira is a 20 year old Journalism and Business student, from Ontario, Canada. Her writing focuses on the mysteries of life, and the questions we may ponder as we grow older.