It is a dictionary in ice.
Pages frozen in place,
the words blurry and unreadable.
All cold and slippery.
I cannot grasp the concrete.
It is a blurry photo.
Unfocused, unmotivated,
unknown.
Discarded as soon as it is found.
It is the waking up
with a dull pounding.
A nap that did not refresh
An exhaustion that never ends
I cannot wake up
cannot end this dull ache
cannot focus
cannot grasp
cannot thaw
cannot do not know
Please wake me up
and clear my head.
Adjust the focus; twist it
and snap a clear picture.
Give me something concrete.
Press it to me
and close my fingers around it.
Then wrap around me
and help me hold on
so this does not slip away, too.
May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 1:18 AM UTC
It is a dictionary in ice.
Pages frozen in place,
the words blurry and unreadable.
All cold and slippery.
I cannot grasp the concrete.
It is a blurry photo.
Unfocused, unmotivated,
unknown.
Discarded as soon as it is found.
It is the waking up
with a dull pounding.
A nap that did not refresh
An exhaustion that never ends
I cannot wake up
cannot end this dull ache
cannot focus
cannot grasp
cannot thaw
cannot do not know
Please wake me up
and clear my head.
Adjust the focus; twist it
and snap a clear picture.
Give me something concrete.
Press it to me
and close my fingers around it.
Then wrap around me
and help me hold on
so this does not slip away, too.
