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Island of the Lotus Eaters

I can see no Islands

Across the glittering sea

My mind is alone within itsself

Playing among the sands

 

No thaught, no reason

Only feeling, in sepia light

Everything is distant and dreamy

Like a smile from long ago

 

The nagging emptiness

drowned out by shimmering birdsong

the feelings of dread engulfed

by something worse

 

Beauty so sinister

A dark whispering among the lights

painful euphoria

and the urge to escape

 

I washed up here again

so soon after I built my raft and set sail

Hypnotised by the sound of crashing waves

on the island of the lotus eaters

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tam-robbie
Scottish
Published
Nov 13, 2010
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