Indigestion
the bridge he needed to cross was overgrown with tangled thicket’s brush
ragwort and giant hogweed littered the pernicious path to his own progress
of perspectives and the slow death from stagnation and frightening delusions
he had to traverse at all cost to kill the perilous onslaught of doubts and sorrow
he could barely see his visage in the pond below and was petrified by the image
his reflection resembled an oozing blemish towering over a mind on crutches
to dampen his sadness and escape from the overpass he jumped head first
but the rock pool sentry disallowed the attempt and bounced him straight back
spread eagled he landed where he had been in dismembered celestial formation
in astral denial of an easy route to disperse moribund comets of grave error
he was promised enterprise by his therapist for a healing journey and growth
who cautioned him that he needed to find for himself what path to take and how
his stepladder had broken and the rope tied itself into desperate knotted demise
secateurs were blunt from pruning neuronal pathways and he stabbed in vain
at helplessness and wished for a pick axe if only to lobotomize his rescue
or at least a shovel to burry his remains for worms and fungus to take care
his other option was to swallow nettles thorny thistles and his scornful jungle
to munch one by one all the obstacles which he had put in his way all by himself
maybe there were magic mushroom hidden or some foliage foiling descent
but with no such luck he gnawed at Self's temptation to throw up his downfall
24th October 2020
Eight Word Challenge 11
Sponsor John Hamilton
Copyright © Kai Michael Neumann | Year Posted 2020
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