Bones shatter into
Splintering pieces,
Droplets of darkness fall
From the ceiling.
Evaporation of thoughts
Disintegrating downwards
Towards pores of stalling traffic,
Air, breath, breaking
Walls down
With overwhelming noiselessness
Creeping furtively
Onto your back
Stacking weights of widening
Cinder blocks bit by
Bit
Biting wind reminds you of
Existence, eliciting an attempt
To leave itself behind.
Rage smouldering with such seduction
You
Tuck it away in your pocket
Savour the taste of its burn
So the stirring continues,
until its concoction
Is complete. Completely fills you
too vigourously
To ignore.
Movement comes before the order
Smashing outside
Inside
It still seeps through the holes,
forcefully again
And porcelain is three million
Fragments of you,
Red
White
Is the paint blue?
Are you?
The world is too white
With sheets on its head,
Eyes roam and
Wonder where they wander, words
Write themselves,
This
Wired mind
Still speaking,
no feeling,
In dimming bulbs.
Martin Elder
Sun 10th Jun 2018 14:40
this is a wonderful poem. I love it
'Droplets of darkness fall from the ceiling'
has got to be my favourite line