a day may show itself
long or near from now
where pain and fear possess no place
their greedy place at your table outstayed
uninvited guests
came into your life, wrecking balls
fathomless of the despair they could put
as wicked times will have us ensnared
forgetful of former peace
hostages to the ease with which
sickness makes strangers of us.
Who inhabits this body of pain?
when did normalcy include such horror?
what lurks behind the shell of our discontent?
masking the urge to cry out with futile restraint
who do we hide our agonies from? Or is it that obscene need to appear
while and strong? While behind public doors we collapse in mock
no succor for the actor of their own wellness
Give me hope we clamoring souls sing in our flung prayer and rage
let me believe
believe again
find the keys, the healer, the drug, the end of
this
or I think I wish
I never existed
a thought I’ve had many times before
though none are without regret
some of us excel at impoverished thought.
I do not remember the me before
mornings of hurt, nights of pain
was she a creature capable of delight and desire?
did I feel alive?
Sometimes it’s hard to know
the fall is long down rabbit hole
make me
myself again
whomever she was
a better dream
than this
slow living just above not existing
hardly realized
quiet in accepted
thirst
for another grasp at hope
for any
recourse
where fear and pain
possess no place
If pain or grief or loneliness
Must have a place at the table
Then let the table be long
Let their place card be put
Far from the head of the table
Let their portions be meager
And may illness be again
A stranger at the feast
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TheFeatheredSleep – fear and pain be banished
Hope in anguish
Ah look at this! You don’t even have to try to be good!
Inspiration helps. <3