Poem: Choice

 

Choice

 

i saw a few joyous souls

jumping off a ledge,

finding wings in the lawless air,

fins in the clockless waltz of seas.

 

i wanted to follow

and yet stalled in the wires blocking my way,

so many hooks of enticement,

the fascinating frissons

of that web.

 

still, i ran and ran

and ran until my feelings burst,

my senses far too alive,

raw in the nudity

of the leap.

 

zombies, i heard from behind,

somewhere inside a screen,

zombies, you have to shoot them

in the head.

 

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