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Marine Andreson Mar 2012
When I go back and read them...
     (will I ever read them?)
or are they there - an insurance,
     a memento of the past - a souvenir, a memory
     condemned forever to paper
     a prisoner
          behind the lines
          the bars
          within the boredom
          the monotony
Marine Andreson Mar 2012
Behind the eyes
staring? waking?
what arises?
I can't see back there! I have a blind spot
It is easy to see once removed,
the eyes will turn around
peer back into the sockets
there it is.

what what is it really?
a creature? a stain?

How to personify sadness
Alone, but not lonely?
Lonely, but not alone?
Lonely and Alone?

the connotations, the denotations

words
our expression, yet our captor
confining us to our expressions
tangled up in the clichés, the expressions, the common, the banal

how to escape
Marine Andreson Mar 2012
Go outside
smell the smells
travel back to real life
back to that place where you
     think
     analyze
     conclude
     assume
     learn
     evaluate
     re-evaluate

too much thinking

just let it go
     childhood traumas
     (is that word too strong?)
     who is to judge
     when there is no judge
     a free for all
     but all is only two
     the laws of the jungle
Why? should we have to experience this?
What made you think that was a good idea?

Hand cramps, writing too fast
the thin seal has been broken
now it all comes out
     unleashed
     but it's not an animal
     but it's lover has no fetish
     how did the leash get there, in the first place?

too many thoughts
what is deep enough                                                           ­                         what is too shallow
what is too deep
          too analytical
     getting trapped, caught, pushing against the net

a train of thought

     lost
  
     regained

how do we know?
how do we learn
how do we live
       mistakes,
            but they come with regret
     books,
            but they lack experience
     stories

a beautiful escape,
but is that all? Their only substance?
A drug? - rise above
     they transport us, alter our perception of reality
     recreational
     procrastination
     a time killer
so violate
being trapped again,
     escaped from the brain
     but trapped by its thoughts
what is crazy?
can I draw on myself?

a hand cramp
Marine Andreson Mar 2012
the magic
the writing
grows difficult

the wrinkles
growing old
or unwanted?

Don't worry
life will change
you will grow to accept it
but the change
what makes the change?

I need to know
the waiting, the decay, the atrophy
smiling hurts because the muscles have atrophied

can feeling atrophy?

Young children
want trophies
how is this for atrophy?
all this pain
contained inside
nice and shiny
everybody gets some
all you have to do is participate
or not
     in life
     on teams

just breathe
     they say it helps
my breathe says they lie
     it hurts
the muscles have atrophied
Marine Andreson Mar 2012
a meditation
looking through the trash
empty
     fullness
how can this be?
the feelings are leaving now
, you can say goodbye

how to survive
when you are unsure
yet sure that certainty is the key
Marine Andreson Mar 2012
A tear,
it leaks
a ghost tear
does it have a soul?
     no - says science
science is appealing
it promises answers
what if it runs out?

so many questions

they will consume all
     the answers
then what will be left?
Marine Andreson Mar 2012
A gum wrapper

something is missing
     a heart
     a child?
     a child looking for
          comfort, safety

NONE FOR YOU
     broken, till death?

will there always be emptiness?
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