only in ignorance does emotion appear pure
now the tones and colors of each moment
run mixing into all others
the sad tension of anxious work
pervades the moment of quiet calm
the tense anger of acid remarks
mars with restraint the joyous reunion
the swelling of my heart at my child’s embrace
confined in a tightening chest of debts
compartmentalization no longer meets success
the contortions required
bend these bones to points of breaking
shoulders elbows knees out of joints
mind shattered into shards so small
reassembly seems impossible
through the fractures bleeding hues endure
strokes of moods and sensations commingling
each layered feeling impure complex
all set firmly askew in an age sturdied frame
beneath semiprecious organic crystalline glass
cut in many-colored facets
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