Sy Roth Poet Free verse

They Took Him

They Took Him
By Sy Roth

They took him and squirreled him away.
Those Sophists, 
Deniers of the terror they could construct
Where he no longer saw the human side of himself.

Half man, Quasimodo of the bells,
Left stranded in the bell tower.
No one to call to
Tintinnabulation orphaned from humanity.

Left in his bed only to dream
Or bury his nightmares
Whisked beneath his bed in a heap
Dreams cohabited with the dust bunnies.

Silent, sinister hopes left tangled 
In a macabre kerfuffle--
Jacob and his Angel
In a struggle to exist.

They took him and he saw only this reality,
The ward in which he lived
A husk of humanity blown against a galling wind,
Crushed against unforgiving walls.

And he languished in his diapered world
Waiting for his eyes to heal
And his twisted lips to unfurl
Waiting to greet a new morn 

Away from the cycle of existence.

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