My reality beached
on white sand
and hallucinations,
I send up driftwood
smoke signals
hoping sanity
will find its way
into my brain.
Am I the dead of night
or a human whose
soul has drowned
in waves of hysteria?
My vaporous hands
embrace flesh and blood
in a dance of surf and moon.
With only a mute seashell audience
there is no one to ask but
the beating heart against my breast
to speak my name.
Sound vibrates against my
lips.
I beg the voice to speak
louder
All I hear are my muffled
words
echoing in the wind.
Who am I?
Am I human or a ghost
coughed up by the sea?
Twirling among the stars,
I rake my nails across the
Milky Way
wondering if insanity has
finally claimed me.
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I beg the voice to speak louder
All I hear are my muffled words
echoing in the wind.
Love these lines - a voice crying in the wilderness, no less...Which way lies madness?
Lovely imagery. :)
Just loved these lines so much:
With only a mute seashell audience
there is no one to ask but
the beating heart against my breast
to speak my name..
. . . .
"Twirling among the stars, I rake my nails across the Milky Way"
"Say my name and that will call me home, just say my name," I hear myself saying once when I needed to be called back from the edge. But being alone with the shells and sands isn't the worst option in a hallucination. It was/is too early to let death kiss the soul no matter how present in the night. And you let your narrator know that here and hold on and wonder.
PS: LOVE the song!
PPS: Miss your old portrait atop this blog.
Wish I could write like that. Where does it come from? Were you surprised yourself when you read it back?
Wish I could write like that. Where does it come from? Were you surprised yourself when you read it back?
I too loved:
"Twirling among the stars, I rake my nails across the Milky Way"
Wow...wonderfully eerie!
Loved it!
I'll be back to check!
ATB
This was my favorite portion:
"My vaporous hands
embrace flesh and blood
in a dance of surf and moon.
With only a mute seashell audience
there is no one to ask but
the beating heart against my breast
to speak my name."
Well done, Susie!!