Thursday, December 17, 2015

The Crib





Nothing

I know of nothing

Like a baby in a crib

Surrounded by muses of days gone by

Without inching a foot out

I see it

I see it clearly

What is waiting for me

If only I can escape

If only

But I am within my nest

Comforted

Rested

Shackled with strands of sand

Blocked by a glassless window

I do not seem to escape

Phantom limbs pulling at me

Soothing me to sleep

Hindering my ascent

Promising me of visionless dreams

I oblige to them

I succumb to the phantom

Yet when I lay down my head

All is lost

I can no longer see

I can no longer feel

For I was robbed

For I was betrayed

Like a baited animal

Lured in to his misery

Served to his defeat

But never worry

I will wake up again

From my gluttonous slumber

And soon the walls of the crib

Will overwhelm me with glorious hopes


Of becoming a Man