Dichotomization

I'm stalked by sleep and sometimes the man speaks

enforces barriers, he laughs with me

and holds my head under when times are bleak

I've suffered the same headache

Should I magnify sinister notions which draw themselves to me

or drop my 'paranoid' state to set myself free

Harvesting fragments from all who i meet

Exposure to mortality as you open your eyes

Installs a motion of uncertainty 

Dreamlike solitude, the crows corpse is in tethers

time has its fractures 

Self loathing and self importance 

A lucid lust for my own termination

I glance away from death to corruption

Morbid imbalance and I just can't settle

Each memory imprinted in a layered haze 

Am I reaching out or merely slumped in this seat

trying to empty a vacant mind and sever the black leads

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

you write "dark" so well...
and this is so anne sexton in its flavor...and she is one of my favorites...

so that makes you one too...

love the 'Crow's corpse in tethers" and "lucid lust for my own termination"