Pain (Life without pain medication)
by The Flaming Red Head
Posted to Poetry on 2002-12-28 18:08:00
Pain (Life without pain medication)
It makes you draw further and further within
Hoping to disappear in soft flickering candle light
The purr of electric fans and the TV on just for the murmurs
If everyday could be
Like this
To the point of
No
No I am not home
No I’m not going anywhere
No
Leave me alone
Alone
Loud noises are not allowed
No bright lights
No anger
Everything boring moving slow
And
No
I’m not home
Go away
Please
Quiet static fills the air like happy voices
I do not want people around
I don’t trust
I don’t like
I am too old for this
I think about a cabin
Somewhere away from
Everybody
I could be a hermit
Complicated people fill my day
Litter my drive
I hate apartments
Arguments
Crack, crank, and god knows what else
I don’t want to know them
Why do they want to know me?
MZ