While gazing into a wild memory,
I slipped lazily through those translucent walls
that normally keep my days from night,
and suppressions from the daily routine.
The barriers sanity relies upon
for structure,
breached.
Ransacked
home again, home again, jiggidy jig.
Someone’s been searching.
An uncareful intruder has broken such dear things.
My jars and figures collected,
smacked to the floor
with the lamps that never worked anyway.
The jelly freshly oozes a purple mess
into the cracks between splintered boards.
A breath behind my ear…
Does it still lurk in the corner with the rocking chair?
Adrenaline gives me a pirouette
to check the breeze with stealth,
but the spider lays carefully alone
waiting for a stupid fly to kill.
I am alone with no one of consequence to speak to,
but I can look to the mirror for comforting thoughts…
can’t I?
Peek! and I’m convinced of the lying nature
of that devious glass,
for what I see holds no candle to me!
In truth, I’m strength to be envied.
I’m a cannon shooting vivacious breath!
What looks at me is violated, frightened like the stupid fly.
I thought I was the spider, spinning a masterpiece for capturing.
I'm captured...just a wasting away resemblance.
A sickening coward who shatters the figures
when frightened.
I am not alone.
I am not the spider...
The intruder still lurks with berserk vibes around me.
I feel it pressing through cracks in my skin,
waiting to resurface my face with its own.
I'm immobilized by the angst I emote,
tired of the ferocious fight within.
I’ll stand without motion in hopes it will pass,
then I’ll find my way back
through the walls.
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Submission Name: Intruder
