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