Friday, June 26, 2009

Searchlights

When I turn my eyes,

To a page of words-

Like bright metallic searchlights-

They come alive.

 

Like little leeches searching for blood,

They smell out my darkness.

They gather round the fog in my brain

And pierce it with their voices.

I hear their sing-song truths

Muttering in my ear.

 

And with the sudden realization

That I am exposed,

I am falling through air as thick as honey,

Wondering how the cliff

was only a step behind me.

My thoughts crash

Through a sinister roadblock

 built too high to flow around.

 

Breathless.

Stunned.

Devastated.

…And so thankful that I can SEE.

 

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