Once upon
a time
in a dream
I was fully alive
in a casket
clean
surmise
yet
dead to life
my arm hung out
the side of it
and my fingers
touched the
green grass
below
As I peered out
from under
the half opened lid
all safe and secure
and comfy
inside of it
there was blue sky above
birds tweeting in the trees
But, the braver ones
were
flying by
looking at me
saying
‘what the hell are you looking at, dumb ass!’
All because this man
was devastatingly hurt
by some woman
he trusted
who
betrayed
him
in the worst
of ways
leaving him penniless
and left for dead
So, he lost all his marbles
cutting himself off
from the whole wide world
HE
chose a small life
One he could control
he became a recluse
a hermit
he played the part
so well
someone
should’ve given him
an Oscar
he didn’t make any mistakes
like he did before
he didn’t do anything new
he didn’t take chances
BUT
what he couldn’t control
was all the loneliness
he felt
inside
even though he drank
himself to sleep
every
single
night
for twenty
lonely
years
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