Poem #7: Enforcing Secrecy

Shifting grass

sashaying and swaying

Golden brass

of afternoon light.

That thick syrup

time of day

A quick stir up

of pollen in the air.

Can you feel your heartbeat

slowing down

Can you feel the defeat

as you succumb.

Out of cotton clouds

you can see yourself

In lovely white shrouds

like a wedding dress

You are outside looking in

feeling your life

without your skin

a ball of green fire.

Feel it spread across the ground

raging green on green

the blades rapidly crowned

your body sinking into chaos.

A chaos of peace and beauty

shifting and flickering

dissipating sense of duty

becoming one with the earth.

You try, half-heartedly, to reach out

bend the laws of physics

to break and leech around

outside of this forum of thought.

But try as you might

the world cannot hold you

it twists out of sight

and evades you.

Now all you see is dirt

as you continue to sink

not even your shirt

can you see in the growing darkness.

Panic starts to rise and flower

but nothing can move you

All that’s left is an invisible glower

and then all is forgotten.