On Falling Down the Full Stop At the End of a Sentence

Blind sight scattered my wits
Like whitened bones
Across the deserts of my mind.

I descended into blackness.
Love shrank into the tame cat
By the fire,unacknowledged hate
Grew to fill the room.
I stared too much,
A full stop grew gigantic
Crowded out
All the words in the sentence
I saw nothing but this dot
Now a gigantic black hole
Into which I was dragged.
An energy coming from within my own head
Sucked me into the black hole.
That place was the wrong sort of dearkness.
Within that full stop,
Love Fundamental became invisible.
Disappered into the dark.
I dragged my eyes away
And saw the moon appear , so eerie,
It shone,grey silver.
If I had opened my eyees wider
I would not now lament
What I destroyed in the wormhole
Of the black dot that drew my eye
Into a tunnel of darkness
It blinded me to the light
Did not let me read the sentences
Beside the full stop.
An error of focus left hate
Unacknowledged,unmitigated unredeemed,
Kept from love or goodness
Afraid to spoil my love with hate,
The fear of hate became
That which spoiled all else else,
By freezing Love itself.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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Tsiluma Avatar
January 12, 2013 at 7:37 AM
Poignant write Katherine! Very cleverly done! Focusing on the dot at the end tends to remove focus from the rest of the sentence - that is life I guess. Seldom do we join the two focuses in our quest. Well penned!
Braithwaite Avatar
January 12, 2013 at 7:42 AM
You got it Vicky..thanks so much for cocmmenting.
Squyres Avatar
January 11, 2013 at 10:21 AM
Interesting analogy !! Reminds me of the phrase...You can't see the forest for the tree. I like it !! Enjoyed
Braithwaite Avatar
January 11, 2013 at 10:52 AM
Thank you,Debra.It's mean to be about narrow focus and wider focus but every one can read it their own way
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