Thursday, May 2, 2024

Self-made prison Nov. 2, 2013

 

Self-made prison

 

Nov. 2, 2013

 

Sometimes

Being on the inside

Is like being

Inside a prison

Of her own making,

, celebrating only

the company of

other insiders

 

the walls of her world

shrinking  around her

fading in the rearview mirror,

though like a bridal car

much of the detritus

clattering behind,

attached to the bumper,

all those dreadful moment

clinging

even though the reason they exist

 has ceased.

 

How does it feel to be there,

 with them, one of them,

 when it is not a place where you belong,

A temporary arrangement

Turning into what seems

Like a life sentence,

A solitary confinement

without even

the crossed out calendar

or daily planner

filled with now meaningless names

 and appointments,

 the new date of doom only days away

 and an all-important election

 that might serve as a life raft

or an escape plan from this place to another.

How does it feel not to know?


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