Anywhere But Here Poem by Windsor Guadalupe Jr

As I tiptoe into another morning,
A stark terrain of glass shards and flare,
I sulk within the depths of my own quagmire,
See, the bastion has been abolished,
And my wounds - eviscerated,
My image upon the mirror, conjuring a decrepit entity
Look at me, look at you

In the slumber, escapist
The dreams that are nightmarish and infernal
Sadomasochistic upon my expense,
And astoundingly comfortable upon her dense, buoyant skin
What is happening?
I send sighs to the heavens but then quelled
Upon the very touch of one, blind, harsh streak of Sunlight

Headless crowds running around a rotund
A rotund of indefinite spectrum and bipolarities
I find that among the vast places in the world,
I walk upon narrow stairs to ascend to a false promise
That accumulate a plethora of disdain and insult

Upon the very features of my facile splendor
The doors are battered, I shriek in fear
As acquiescent as I am, I pray upon one darling
To take me anywhere but here.

I would go willingly,
And I do not care who you are,
For this amaranthine encapsulation inside a sleeper cell
With no one to converse in the time of deafening silence,
I flail my arms to instigate contact

Contact among worlds that slip into orbits one by one,
And I slip into pits day by day
Talk to me, I don’t care who you are
Anywhere but here, take me far.

But then equanimity might be obscured
By the moment of senile images among coiled mirrors
And the smoke, the smoke of deceitful claim,
Deems my heart a tempestuous place
And my mind, a place of ambivalence

Wailing like lighthouse auroras
Blaring like voices - one voice, I only recognize one
But then again, I am surrounded by people
Who are alive inside, dead outside

The place could be lit by only one star,
Or a banquet of only one food but a bounty of impeccable lips
And gossamer skin, that would do,
Or the place could be by a park bench

Where we would breath simultaneously
And share what we expel
And revel in what we take in
I do not know your name dear,
But please, take me anywhere but here.