Nothing Between
So full of empty between the ears;
void breeze reasoning,
zero thoughts a-blowing
Banished to the barren cornfields,
multi-grain years of accumulated wisdom
bear no pleasant, golden-age yield
Black sky intellectual famine
was lost cause shuttered-in,
by a blight of self-centered locust feed
Constant dry spells of self-absorption: Attic dust
sparked a bewitchingly vague eclipse acceleration ...
a covering blindness of gross darkness
No candlelight activity ~ no emotional fertility
Ancient bones of moist contention
randomly doused by fiery forgetfulness
Addled gestures
buried
beneath facial dry ground,
blanches
the ash fallow soil
with expressionless sterility
Immense nothingness ... bountiful emptiness
A vacuous mental sheaf
bending to the hollow wind whisperings heard less and less
Cranial cracked cistern,
watercolors of compassion spilling
New cretin observations ...
conversation water table on the dwindle
Kaleidoscope personalities
that are always chameleon changing
Dawn memories fading, thoughts diffusing
Never able again to see
things quite right upstairs mirror prism bent improperly,
casting past reflections mnemonic shadowy
Where did a neural immeasurable,
liquid electric muse
evaporate to?
How did an oasis of joyous rumination
disappear,
without a serene memory dip
to refresh anew?
A once beautiful, fertile mind
is now
banished to the barren cornfields
A formerly wondrous field of dreams,
now listens to the Alzheimer wind
silently mind-blowing
There’s nothing between the autumn ears,
yet the summer fears springing above the chest,
keeps winter growing
A once beautiful mind
is forever
banished to the barren cornfields
To listen, agitatedly,
for the turbulent winds
to silently come a-blowing
Having nothing between the ears;
only the never-ebbing, night falling fears ...
and crashing waves of misty morning tears
A tsunami loss of knowing
Empty tidal thoughts above the chest,
which keeps on daily rising
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2018
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