The World Eclipsed Me – 5

words by barbara doduk


5.

and

blushing girls

smiling over the waste baskets

clinging to the record spinning

hanging off the tail

of the rat they called mine

or was it his

or theirs

or no ones in the end

and does it even really matter

to me any more

and

caressing sleeves

little pathetic moving moments

over candle wax

and soft sound

whimpered the words

with roses red and blooming

wined and liquored up

the love was easy

though the meaning never grasped

and well

just never mind

the ending life never hits repeat

the days never claim compensation

for lost time

the morning brings newness

freshness

clean scented

fruit filled hammock swings

and

no more trees growing here

inside the clear-cut

ravaging the green forest

mining the caves clear

resourceful sour petty cliques

hoarding red bloodied logs

damming up the flow of free thought

and

black clouds

lingering over horizon

golden set sunlight

over peaches

fuzzy navel beaches

with blue blanket

sand trapped

in the moon landscape ball

evergreen pastures

grazing fields filled with gloom

my lifeless marriage

holding the axe of impeding doom

and

the world spinning

all around it keeps close time

sandman bring me dreams of a better land

with dragons

fairy-tales that come true

and lollipops

cherry

wishful thinking

merry tight-wearing men

and

tomorrow is holding my fate

the key to unlock my hell

flames eat away the edges of sanity

and the end is always near

waiting just for the crack

the snap

breakdown nerves

and it’ll flood the channels

and end the suffering endured,