Kaleidoscopic Eyes
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Kaleidoscopic optic, nervous eyes;
Blinking disbelief while dropping
Moisture-laden kisses.
Each one misses.
Sorrow such an individual thing.
Truth be said,
There are places that it cannot go.
We cannot go.
No one can go.
Until they go.
That is when all barriers collapse.
Mighty sinewed synapses
Coagulate no more.
All are sprung as spring
With no more traps.
All are papered to the wall.
All is as before,
Between the sex and naps.
This manufactured mill
Will spit and spill,
Toil and kill,
Leave its mark upon this soiled rug.
A hound in heat.
Windowless, stenching odor;
Crawling, Clawing,
Outwitting air, displacing care,
Releasing coiled form
To strike a soul.
Reminding you
To take your pill,
Eat your fill,
pick up all you spill.
Stand outside your head for just a moment.
Feel the life that’s bled from you.
The morsels that are fed to you
Envy for a bread that’s new.
Waiting to seize a prize you never knew
Existed.
You are the smoke that others of your tribe
Insisted,
must be true.
Each of you is you.
Smoke reflected in the mirror.
One and Only Holy Terror
All your nightmares dream of;
The other side of love.
Copyright © Vernon Witmer | Year Posted 2021
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