Strings
It’s a slight feeling of falling,
Being weighed down - about to plunge into the abyss,
But strangely held in place,
Is it gravity?
A melted face of expressions,
Even one’s body heavy and drab -
“boots of lead” as Dickinson so aptly put it.
How to stay HERE and NOW!?
Do something, do ANYTHING!
Start anything, speak to ANYONE.
Just don’t stay here, even if you hear their beckoning call..
You’re already entering a parallel world,
where everything is thick and black,
An in-between world,
Soon to enter that of the dead,
Maybe they’ll have the kettle on,
and I’ll fit in better there, he muses.
No more dashed hopes and lonely nights,
No more TRYING to survive,
“No more waiting to die” as Claire puts it in “Six Feet Under”.
But for now, sparse, numb and limp limbs,
the shadow person, the invisible one.
Drowning in past sorrows (at least subconsciously) that
Control the present like some demonic puppet-master,
Unable to cut the strings and sing freely,
Who holds the scissors, me, you or them?
And yet, the calling of my name is not quite threatening or unpleasant,
I hear you, but I’m just not yet ready..
-2021
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I promise her. I'd do anything for her. She's my mom. Even as Lanie and Deanna are flying home, Mom is scrappy fighting dying. She lays too still in that too-big bed with all the toasty white hospital blankets, in the south tower, at the broad end of a long slow-turning corner that delivers me again to her private room with the view she can't see through, with the beeping that tells us nothing new, and all these ice chips she can't swallow, and a flood of well-intentioned nurses who cannot do a damned thing all the same.
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Comments (4)
Feelings of giving up. Don't let the devil win and grin. Up, up we swim, where the currents of life stands positive.
Absolutely relate to this… your “I hear you…” last line is haunting! And thanks for the subtitle content warning, I really appreciate those!
We certainly have similar styles at the keyboard, hearted couple and subscribed, will check out more later 😀
Wow, this was so deep! I too sometimes feel exactly the same. I could feel all the emotions in this. Very well done! 💖