My Foolish Heart

Sitting

In the dark

Feeling the beat

Of my foolish heart

 

I touch my face

Alien lines push away my fingertips

I don’t feel like me

I am a woman possessed

 

Eyes widen out to let in more light

Dark unseeing pools disguising my fright

 

If I can just stay here…

 

Still in the night

Protected by blindness

Sustained by no sight

 

Sitting

In the dark

Feeling the beat

Of my foolish heart