Outstretched
And
Exposed
To find
Yourself
In
The
Chasm.
Displaced
Consciousness
As if
A Phantom.
Holding your soul,
Close to your body.
Rolling
Into
A Cocoon
Of
Newly
Spun
String.
Rolling, rolling, rolling...
To where?
Towards
Undetectable
Cosmos.
Unending,
Then crystalizing
Over sudden sunsets,
Infinitely,
Across the horizon.
Moving towards
Abstractions
Faster,
As concrete
Fails to set
Within them.
Swept up
On the stairwell
Of a helix,
Waiting to
See where
It ends.
Caught up
In the never-ending
Space of Obscurity
That sometimes seems
Forbidden.
Nov 10, 2018
Nov 10, 2018 at 11:43 PM UTC
Outstretched
And
Exposed
To find
Yourself
In
The
Chasm.
Displaced
Consciousness
As if
A Phantom.
Holding your soul,
Close to your body.
Rolling
Into
A Cocoon
Of
Newly
Spun
String.
Rolling, rolling, rolling...
To where?
Towards
Undetectable
Cosmos.
Unending,
Then crystalizing
Over sudden sunsets,
Infinitely,
Across the horizon.
Moving towards
Abstractions
Faster,
As concrete
Fails to set
Within them.
Swept up
On the stairwell
Of a helix,
Waiting to
See where
It ends.
Caught up
In the never-ending
Space of Obscurity
That sometimes seems
Forbidden.
This poem might not appear to make sense at first. It came to me as a visual image that suddenly popped into my head as I was thinking about how I feel about a life situation that I've struggled with for a while. It actually has dual meanings as after I wrote it some subcontious thoughts also surfaced. I've heard poetry is good therapy and believe it. So the inspiration came as the sun started to go down as it does now at 4pm. I was thinking about a piece of life, closed my eyes and saw myself exposed and naked laying in a dark, empty space. Then I realize it, and so my entire being rolls itself up in a cocoon for protection to find that my mind is very abstract and struggles in this concrete world, especially around a lot of people who are very concrete and black & white thinkers. It's time to find a new field but it seems like a big leap. Just thoughts and visualizations put to words....
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