I can feel your menace
Raping away
The solitary scraps
Of my dignity
Each night descends
As the one before
With a raising
Of voices
As if within
A pack of wolves
Were beset
By a savage moon
*
My dreams
Have become unbearable
An albatross atop
A kyphotic architecture
My heart
Has grown pendulous
Slicing its way through
A rotten foundation
I am overrun
With the ghosts
Of our collective pasts
I have forgotten laughter
Both the means of
Acquisition and adornment
*
How many times
Must I rebuild
Before the ground beneath
Gives way entirely
And the walls fail
To numb the weather
I do not feel safe
In this annex of discontent
Alone in crowded
Claustrophobic rooms
Broken down
Degraded
*
Will my words
Ever penetrate
Your spirit
Or will they fall away
Unheard
Whispers in shadow
Will I ever
Make a home
Of the wreckage
That…
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whew…this opens with a boom….those first couple lines are vivid…
and forgetting laughter….there is so much pain in this….
Thank you Brian