POETRY: Caged

©CAGED

Mimi Wolske, May 2014

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Forced to lie in this room as dark as pitch

like an unsinging, single-eyed, caged bird

and wait for the raven and the black wolf,

neither of which I'll find but I will see,

I'm plagued, I fear her threat of revenge;

My nervous system reacts to severe

thoughts from an overactive imagination.

Far away, diamonds, racing away from

a black hole look like falling gypsy stars,

are only a  memory locked away

in my brain of nights before this nightmare,

of love before this invasion of those

beckoning fears and wayward tears falling

into the abyss of souls with love lost.

I open my mouth and a love affair

of words too fast to be understood

escapes and swirls like a smoky fog that

is as amorphous as all our trusting

entanglements and lays selfishness in

a coffin with the bitterness that was

hers and her desire destroy true love.

It is her voice that is vapid, for she

is piety, second-hand morality

offering slight-of-hand tricks, riddles in

a mystery that is concealed in time...

or until the door of the cage is opened,

light fills the room, the raven flies, and the

the wolf's sense of smell is ravenous.

A lightning crack to the head, a paranoid

psychosis becomes illuminating

in horror's now hopelessly overly

zombied and sodomy-phobic painting,

Evil withholds her magic glasses from

the unsinging, single-eyed, caged bird and

the wolf that could wake the sleeping princess.

(Caged by Allison Hill)

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