Tuesday, September 3, 2024

No roach motel Feb 25, 2014

 

this ain't like roach motel

 check-in and you don't check out

the place is run by angels

and she didn't have

to die to get there

 salvation perhaps with bed pans

and a sense of purpose

she knew she needed to come here

or someplace like it for years

 but was scared to do so

to let go. to give up control

to someone else only

if she didn't do it this time

she might not have survived

 long enough to get another chance

 Angels greeting her at the door

with a list of rules by which she must live by

 or risk not being able to live

 this isn't judgment nor punishment

 but a cure and she has to grip

this life preserver  tightly.

she either holds it or drowns

and she come has come

so close to drowning already

 she knows what it that feels like

and doesn't want to feel that way again


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