Sunday, August 7, 2022

Poem: Haunted

 

Haunted

 

doors tilt to spin walls,

but the no-way-out victim-

hood shifts denials, no way

to get clean, this uninten-

tional roulette, to run

faster around more corners in

more panic to achieve less, yes, 

you are the spin, the pill, the drug

in curves of halls that hunt

and yet still falter into fungus, mirrors, yes,

it is you who must press your skele-

ton to your beating chest,

you who must not feel the bones,

none of the bared truth,

zero pitfalls, no chance

to outchallenge the lurking

cellar of risk.

 


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7/16/23  ... "truth" replaces "ugly (n)" ... "fungus" replaces "mold"

Aug 15  ... added "yet"

Aug 7/22 ... minor changes hours after posting



 

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