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Listless Gaze

transfixed
I stumble down
shifting halls of
my angst my
distress
a cold stale breath
stagnates and permeates
its doom
onto my essence.

beguiled
I entomb myself
in the moment
asphyxiating
flailing
clawing
grasping for
desperately
disintegrating walls.

abdicated
I capitulate to
the lair
that cold cavity
pit of dread
that
pool of tears
where my devotion
thrashes plangently.

interred
in the filth
of want
of need
of putrefying wonder
entombed within
every pore
every inch
of my desolation.

moribund
I turn to stone
my listless gaze
fixated ruefully
on the luminance
the far distant
light
where steadfast
dim hope resides.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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Date: 12/20/2020 2:02:00 PM
You are wasted here in the gelatinous consommé...you are clearly a real poet, a WRITER. My writing is thoroughly put to shame. I love this, most of what I am reading in your portfolio is exceptional and of a very high standard. Most poems of yours, I have had the pleasure to read so far, exceed POTD - and it astounds me why no comments yet. Yet, it doesn't astound me, why no comments yet. :) Leanne
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Rob Levasseur
Date: 12/20/2020 4:21:00 PM
Oh, I also forgot a capitalized LOL for your "gelatinous consomme comment. LOL!
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Rob Levasseur
Date: 12/20/2020 2:58:00 PM
Haha, loved your last comment. I was troubled that day. I do sometimes think it's overkill on some days. Thank you so much, your commenting really makes me grateful for you. And no, I fucking don't mean that assifuckingnine "appreciate you" phrase that's going around. File it with "It is what it is."

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