Vernon Witmer Poet Prose Poetry

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Kaleidoscopic Eyes

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.

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