#bewildered
When all is said, the site no longer matters; it makes little difference whether i'm burned in the heating sun, caught in a heavy rain, or sailed across a navy ocean. They are to weave in one crease somewhere inside me. Nevertheless, from another dimension, the site means something hard, engraved, irreplaceable. These days in home I found myself disheartened, nonplussed, and suffocated. Out in the city I navigated through the giddy horde, antisocial. There’s no subversive changes but nuance shifts that eventually leave the sentiments in deluge. I felt like a caged elf. I questioned my staunch nature.
“I miss the day when the glass is always half full”, when I was exuberant always, at least in front of you, my heaviest confidant. It’s feeling colder inside than outside; I know, relieved that I didn’t initially, all is irrevocable. Those detritus of enchantment repaints the vibe of mine. I owed it all, to the ones that imprinted me. What’s wrong with my mawkish side? Why is eccentricity to be censured? Who else sway one stronger than the self does? One can't ask the sea to never swell in rage. In that you've forsaken your role as my defender, i build my enclosure higher, thicker, colder than the backyard fence, so there's no errands, no means of lapse, of censure. You know everything yet about life——the one I devoted to live. Terrified to admit, I hesitated when asked whom I am referring to.
Half explicit thrill, half insidious vehement. Full fugitive conviction. My second journey towards America. What happened last summer in Texas flew by on some occasion. That’s the center of incidence, not mentioning millions clips of the periphery, the subjective. which stifled my intimidated solider in an unexpected battlefield. “Tell me where the time goes, it’s like I’ve had my eyes closed.” Some memories are encapsulated. The world seems to remember more I wish to.
As those ego pitfall, the outside order of time becomes my last propel. I never settle, sometimes tarry. I rearranged the handy necessities in the backpack, inspecting within, behind, beyond. The ruffles hinged imply a constant shuffle between packing and unpacking. “Beneath the flying cloud the home assumed forgotten.” Adrift, astray, bewildered, apathetic, unsettled. I'm related to these related words. The plane of the rite of passage takes off, me the only passenger.
Sep 28, 2025
Sep 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM UTC
..............there’s such a clamour
so much choring
memory thread
I sit
armchair
rocking head
receiver of motion
bleaker of putty trauma
creator of mammary craving
.....best take up knitting or wood carving
the fortress of thought
(in strict connivance with a bewildered host)
compiles the 'person idea'
protects the fragile calculator
from biting at its own exposed
and useless self mating psychology
from glutting on its own tail
and merry going mad
in a tune of hoops...
..stammering to achieve valuation
for our decent management
projector
may you continue operations falser still
defeating our own polygraphs and making fools of our internal courtrooms
i sit on this chair
things go still
thoughts occur elsewhere
am i left to not be ?....................
May 11, 2021
May 11, 2021 at 10:00 PM UTC
"I fear of having my turbulent waves crash down upon you. I fear of having my chaos entangle you in it’s mess. I fear my darkness enwrapping, engulfing and entrapping you in it’s depths. I fear of leaving you bewildered by the cryptic words that slip my tongue."
- excerpt from an open letter
Jul 24, 2019
Jul 24, 2019 at 11:48 AM UTC
Bury me up to my neck in water
Soothe my like you would a preachers daughter
Like someone who’s sore from bowing at pews
Who’s secretly ****** up
And never amused
“Nevermind” -JP
Jul 1, 2019
Jul 1, 2019 at 3:31 PM UTC
Upon my soul
he gallantly walked
he gave no mention
nor sensation
so here , I am left
to question
what , I couldn't feel
no warning
that I was his victim
he'd leave me questioning
ever moment
how'd I not know
this stranger I thought
I knew
So gallantly he walked
So to never make a sound
so I never could ?
till he was out of sight
that I'd then dare find
All that was never true
© Jennifer Delong 2/2019
Feb 11, 2019
Feb 11, 2019 at 9:11 PM UTC
Under the crimson moonlight I see,
A smile on your face, unbound and free.
I held your hand under the maple tree,
And I got down on my knee...
I humbly asked you "will you be my key?"
You smiled and said "we were meant to be."
With a sudden blackout I found myself in a void sea...
I was bewildered into reality...
As I wake up the ceiling is what I see...
And I realized my dreams were mocking me...
Nov 1, 2018
Nov 1, 2018 at 2:40 PM UTC
She clings
With lonely hands
To thorn-ridden
Roses
And yet
She is
Bewildered
When her hands
Begin to
Bleed
Nov 6, 2016
Nov 6, 2016 at 9:56 PM UTC
**I literally felt the pain rushing through
my body while reading your email
I'm so sorry to read
what you must have felt
that day and that moment
I can't say that**
**I know how you must have felt
because I never had this happen to me,
but I sort of know how it feels since
I've been cheated on plenty of times
But getting an email like this
Nope this hasn't ever happen to me
I know you assume
it was due to you lacking
in so many area's
Truth be told
I've not a reason
why things happen as they have
nor can I
explain why I took
away from you
what would of been your fairy tale romance
I don't know you and never planned to
I didn't even really know him
or that he was playing this silly game**
**I hope you will be able to forgive me
pray too you'll find a new love
and a new happy ending for yourself
because you deserve it**
**As I've stated I-I don't know you
and never planned to
I didn't even really know him
or I'd of know you were**
His wife
Copyright ©
Ayeshah K.C.L.N
1977-Present
All right reserved
Dec 2, 2015
Dec 2, 2015 at 12:02 PM UTC
My mind is a ghost house,
Haunted by souls still trying t
still here
o be found.
Some live
still
Others,
mere vapours
still here
Exhale, then die, and resurrect in technicolour,
Only to expire
again
Like candles in an unexpected breeze.
The windows were left open
In the dark, the spectres
still.
Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 5:12 PM UTC
Life poses a big problem,
A question rather than an answer.
The aesthetic meaning hiding
In everyone's corrupted mind.
A solution thrown at the sea,
Only those who drowned shouted victory!
Jul 20, 2015
Jul 20, 2015 at 2:31 PM UTC
sorry clings to a dark heart
take the wrong path, no restart
put it on the line, to have it all
my sorrow ushers in your pleasure
bewildering how you will never know
full circle for the things I've done to you
the dreams that will never fade to obscurity
we knew there was something wrong with me
wanting something that does exist any more
your pain forever heavy in my heart and my mind
every time I think I succeed, it bombards my mind
My absence has to be one of the best things you know
yet I know there is still a small fire inside
but inside it's just ember by this time
but surely the fire will never die
Mar 23, 2015
Mar 23, 2015 at 3:14 PM UTC
bewildered that this text
this forgotten scribe
uplifts the feelings
i try so hard to bury inside
this scribbled stanza
relieves pressure and pain
slowly allowing me to
stop reliving the shame
words once read
in black and white
submerged in emotions
high, light, and bright
letting your painted face
in my memory vault fade
ebbing in the distance
while these words continue to invade
funny is that our feelings exist
so playful and irrational
yet followed zealously
feels greater than feels, professional
s.q.
Nov 30, 2014
Nov 30, 2014 at 10:59 PM UTC
Irrationally rationalize for my
craving heart
exactly why it is
that you & I should
share these emotions, this
feeling, these overwhelming
sensations
that leave us petrified
lost in one another's
body? spirit? soul?
Just lost, no bounds,
no ropes or chains
to find our way
Just connected minds
feeling bodies
reaching hands
bewildered souls
enhanced experiences
of our aching bones
s.q.
Sep 10, 2014
Sep 10, 2014 at 1:24 PM UTC
Feelings of confusion, keeps bugging my head
Feelings of unsureness, I'm painting it all red
Feelings of frustration, overcomes me instead
Feelings still wavering, keeps me from falling to bed
May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 2:33 AM UTC
I'm gonna hold back tears,
every freakin' day for you.
I'm put up this always-an-optimist act,
every freakin' time you say to.
I'm gonna laugh,
and never again cry.
Because you say it makes you tired...
I'm gonna hold in my scream,
and smile, never frown.
I'm gonna say I'm a-okay,
while you cut me down,
such a wee-tree.
I don't deserve sarcastic mimicry.
But you don't even need me..
You don't even see me..
So why do I have to..
waste all my freakin' control on you?
If I so much as complain,
about you,
about life,
you stab me with a freaking knife.
What happened?
You were my role-model,
my brother,
my best friend,
my life.
"I know."
Is all I am able to say to you anymore,
because if I strike so slightly,
the rain will pour.
May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 at 10:40 PM UTC
March in Minnesota
Still a solid four feet of snow
Two flipping inches of ice
On every flipping road
High school lunches
All the nutrients in the world!
For a six year old maybe
Or a terribly anorexic girl
Mar 5, 2014
Mar 5, 2014 at 5:27 PM UTC