Hole

A Poem by Siobhan Welch

What can I say on

this beautiful day, but

I want to be somewhere else.

A place that no longer exists,

nor did it ever.

Always running to somewhere else,

away from everything here.

"No matter how fast I run,

I can never seem to get away

from me."

"No matter where I am,

I can't help thinking

I'm just a day away

from where I want to be." (1)

And where is that place

I want to be, really?

Anywhere at all

As long as I'm not there.

"Drinking isn't my problem -

It's my solution.

Life is the problem!" (2)

And my solution doesn't work

and I can't escape myself.

"And I find myself just wishing

that my mind would simply cease." (3)

"But can you save me?" (4)

"Bring me to life." (5)

"And in the end remember

It's with you, you have to live." (6)

I know not joy or happiness.

They are strangers,

"Frozen to myself." (7)

"Don't talk of love.

I've heard the word before." (8)

A word, among many

like happiness and joy.

A word spoken but

not allowed to feel.

I don't know how to feel.

"I don't know what I'm looking for.

I never have opened the door." (9)

"I'm gonna find me

A hole in the wall.

I'm gonna crawl inside

And die." (10)

(1) Jackson Browne

(2) AA saying

(3) Stephen Stills

(4) Aimee Mann

(5) Amy Lee

(6) Graham Nash

(7) Portishead

(8) Simon and Garfunkel

(9) The Moody Blues

(10) Marshall Tucker

© 2011 Siobhan Welch

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Veronica Chandler

This was delightful, dark and luscious; stirring my spirit with your creativity and process; I adored the way you used lyrics in this piece. I am a bit beyond sad to contemplate the depth of pain especially without the opposing forces of Joy and Happiness, well it makes me want to drink or think not sure which yet.