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Here or There

The sky is dark again.

Time to embark then

on another quest to find some peace in my mind

and some sleep on a short wind.

              

Up the eyelids stay

until my muscles decide

it’s time to pay the price of admission to dreamland,

leaving my lids with nothing to hold them open, they

fall and crash as my concentration begins to find some meaning

in another day.

              

Folkways and mores left behind—

people standing backwards in elevators—

making me question, reality?

My thoughts slow down

only to find unicorns eating popcorn;

green monsters lacking jealousy—          

 

Unwinding down

a spiral staircase to a

door with a sign saying here,

and another with a sign saying there.

        

Mind neither here nor there but caught at a “Y” in the road.

Pick one?

I fight back and forth with myself

until I slip into here.

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andrea-ellmore
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Mar 1, 2010
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