White Delirium
There is a colorless glitch in my life
I've forgotten the taste of sugar and spice
I've taken a walk in colorless thought with a twitch in it
Turned sour and dour, weirdly glum with grit
Like tiresome dogs lying flat as a pancake
Lost my oomph, my moxie won't wake
Have no key to turn to start my engine
My desire is slammed, I need a new dimension
I begged Pandora and pleaded with a witch
To take the sound away that is so high pitched
They made promises to me and I to them
Now they won't listen and the doom will never end
Pandora keeps playing her games on me
I opened her box to a devastating reality
Filled with pyres, liars, seducers and gore
Then there's the witch who stands with her curse at my door
Too many times I've been in her black corner
Frozen with fear and faulted with horror
Snakes in dreams that quake and bite my feet
My brain is disappearing into an insane obsolete
I sit frozen mumbling the words I can't say
My itch is so numb now that my pain just slides away
There is a blank white wall that sits in my view
Like no-color technicolor null and nil I don't have a clue
I hear flies buzz everywhere with non-stop zeal
I watch the boulevard zoom with bright automobiles
Lost in this stream of lights at the bus stop I cower
Counting each blind minute hour by hour
My madness is a dead piece that sits perfectly inside me
When I sit and not move within the hummmmmm in my head
I know then I am safe and perfectly free
Ha, Ha, Ha! The snow is so white - I think I am dead
October 23, 2019
Rewrite on July 19, 2020
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Copyright © Lonna Blodgett | Year Posted 2019
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