54/M/The Exclusion Zone Married to Mrs. Timetable.
Surreal picture by Justin Peters.
New book "Exiled to Dusk" available here:
https://poetizer.com/book/ba36575e-df93-482e-9279-e97ae0b7bc13 880 followers / 32.3k words
Sometimes it is what's in the heart and not what is before them coming in and out of focus If they see and not look Optimism not **** eyed clear and true Refocus and find a different viewpoint Be true to yourself Kindness and concern take center stage Aggravation and pain are redirected to a focal point new to you and others The world and how one sees becomes a question of what could be and what should be versus what is What these eyes have seen is not a reboot It is original and everlasting Outside looking in and inside looking out What are you looking at?
Trapped in between the lyric and music Wandering in a rhythm of lost expectation Blaming each note still unplayed and unwritten The echoes distend in a moment’s undoing
Hearing a chorus when no choir is present Voices imagined to sing my sequester Wandering aimless through scores of abandon Harmony denied me —nightmarish and deafening