Best Torpor Poems

The torpor soon ends
 
   Vibrant life begins anew-

      Spring expectations~!...

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A coterie of unschooled children in tow
A blind woman shambles from street to street
Stretching an emaciated hand in a row
Hoping a coin her kitty will greet

From impoverished passersby
Who tighten belts to breaking point
Restraining a famine cry
In an exclamation joint

That begs for progress
Hoping against hope
The blind...

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I have been accepting 
that I lost my courage to be vulnerable,
and I hovered over words that would not flow,
For my emotional tsunami hides in the insufferable,
I was just afraid to let this ache inside me go. 

My stygian soul then scheduled my mental breakdown
And...

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As Rumple in blankets,
I vegetate in unfilled torpor, 
Blind enervation adrift among
Extinguished stars, among dark 
Torpid galaxies where I am a stranger.
I find only dead planets, windswept and barren,
Where molecules of a distant living past
Are vaguely recalled,
And where conceptions, 
Convictions all collapse.
Exhaustion is an avalanche...

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