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Nirvana

March 15, 2015
By ktcat SILVER, Great Neck, New York
ktcat SILVER, Great Neck, New York
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Favorite Quote:
"Not all those who wander are lost." ~J.R.R Tolkien


I panic as fair sleep swallows my face
My pencil-tip swerves, a wild EKG
The world slips away at a frightful pace

 

Long have I shunned moonshine to save my grace
Yet, diamonds I see are dregs and debris
I panic as fair sleep swallows my face

 

The pill of unknowing, the drug of base
Eyes, dampens the text I see and un-see
The world slips away at a frightful pace

 

Sinister rubber sounds start to erase
My fingers, my heart, my pelvis, my knee
I panic as fair sleep swallows my face

 

Strikes my brain, forces my hand to misplace
My faith. As humor dies and thoughts fly free
The world slips away at a frightful pace.

 

I am lost in betting on a rat race
The elevator pings: purgatory
I panic as fair sleep swallows my face
The world slips away at a frightful pace


The author's comments:

From birth, we're taught that if we do a, b, and c, we'll be kind and generous and loved and worthy and GOOD. Still, the world is much more gray than it is black and white, even though we are often raised to see it as being so. This villanelle used to be entitled, "Surrendering"... but now I think learning to adopt a realistic and forgiving approach to the world is more positive than that, something not quite, but close to, Nirvana.


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