An Unfamiliar Mind

I woke up in a stranger’s home,

My body decorated,

In a stranger’s clothes.

My favorite emerald blanket

Embraced a stranger’s bed.

I was trapped in the walls,

Of a stranger’s design.

The home was mine.

My clothes littered the floor,

My paintings infested the walls.

The body was mine.

A flesh made vessel,

With small hands and floppy breasts.

But the mind was not.

My mind was not ready to share

a home or a head.

My mind was not strong enough.

I felt my heart thunder,

Instinct told me to leave.

The perversion of my home

Overwhelmed rational thought.

I darted towards the door

As my feet passed the barrier,

Hope turned to horror.

There was no ground to walk on,

To reach sanity I had to swim.

I paddled forward, fearful.

Ahead a murky mirage.

Two figures waved me further,

My lover, holding the hand of a child.

Desperately I lurched forward,

And clung to them both.

Together we might be okay.

Together we could find a way

To deal with the horror.

Together we could be,

The three musketeers.

We ventured slowly farther,

But the water got deeper.

A mind flooding with memories.

The waves climbed higher

The water restless and angry.

My lover and I struggled to breath

We fought to stay afloat.

How could we bring a child here?

I gripped my daughter’s hand tightly,

But her fingers slipped through mine.

Hues of blue swallowed her.

I tried to bring her back up

But it was too late.

Together we would not be.

I was left alone with my lover,

Escaping an unfamiliar mind.