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Mess Time (Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?)



Fragile, I cracked, collapsed

Into a screaming ocean of tears

 

My womb of sanity aborted, prolapsed,

I was borne through corridors marbled with fears

 

As broken and scattered

As the dog-strewn eggshells

 

I splintered, fell shattered

Lost in a maze of mind-hells

 

How long did I lie there, crumbled,

Flotsam & jetsam, pieces and bits

 

Awash on gray sands? Tried to rise, but I stumbled

Imploded, exploded – helpless gasps, nothing fits

 

***

You helped clean the trash that covered the floor

But to you, your sad sister was on a far distant shore

 

"Wow! You're a mess!" was the best you could offer

Even cold comfort you just couldn't proffer –

 

You just sat by, on the couch, adrift in your world

While your fellow lay sobbing, fetally curled

 

Helpless and hopeless, my threads all unraveled

Only  three feet between us, the road left untraveled


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