Thursday, 14 June 2012

Because I Love Words: Chapter Two (How I see Life)


To and fro
To and fro
Like a metronome
Ticking, counting the rhythm of time
In a grip inescapable and real
As to tear away any and all thoughts of dreams and fiction
Invading your sanctuary with actuality and reality
Never giving you a break
Providing infinite causes to escape

Invasive is the word most accurately targeting this existence
With accusing finger
Even as it linger

Go away please,
Please, I beg
As I shut my doors, pull in the windows
Lock off the phone and turn my head

In my bed, the lights all snuffed
The dark muffled between my sheets
Delineating borders ignored by the formless intruder
Marking time to the beat

Tick, tock, tick
Measured a pace fast and slow

To and fro
Back and forth
I’m at war
Lips spewing froth
From the frustration of dealing
With the closed of mind
Vision lacking
And narrow of sight
Claiming right with a verity, a surety

Of fools drunk on
Stereotypes, ignorance and darkness
Darkness…
A blackness
Populated by the Unforgiving
And the Heartless….

Now go away…

Leave me alone
With my shadow and my echo
Please...
I just need a moment to breathe...

Glen Toussaint© 2012

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