A Secret Cloud I Share With None

written by Strausser

While screams of my own shatter my ears
My mind pressurizes from the fear
Pain injects my lowly soul
Clamping my mouth, thrown down the hole
A dark fevor rests on my brain
Slipping down into disturbed terrain
Chewing what's left of my burnt-out grit
Frantic like tabacco without tough spit
Jumbled thoughts like a jigsaw puzzle
And mute like a garrulous fool silenced by a muzzle
I slide my mind above this state
To my pure-white cloud murdered not by hate
Flowing colors march through the foam
As I begin to fantasize that I'm not really alone
Angels chime at my fingertip's whim
Playing soothing harp-music to tend aching limbs
Seeping, sweet fruit nectar pushes into my body's pores
Closing my pain and misery behind a barred door
The cloud moves melodically through the sky
While I'm glad I finally have this undrugged way to fly
My tired mouth curves slowly to a half-smile
Watching other soft clouds pirouetting all the while
My cloud folds to nothing, drifting me down
Back through the window, down deep underneath the ground
A bed of stone greets my awaited arrival
From the dream that enveloped my diminishing survival
A stink of urinated reality clouds my ora
In this place of Hell, the doctors call Encora.

FIN

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