Chambers Of The Mind 7.19.2008 Poem by Margaret Alice

Mind Raw And Bleeding

After a mad, wild week of running about,
the anticlimax: It is all over, water under
the bridge, only some opportunities used,

some probabilities - possibly - realized in
different lines of reality; sitting here not
finding the silver cord back to the present

enclosed in a suffocating room of memories
and confusing dreams, searching to escape
into feelings of becalmed duty - acceptance

of routine which always become my enemy,
squashing my burgeoning spirit, leaving my
mind’s surface raw and bleeding…


Underground Chambers of My Mind

Lost in the underground chambers
of my mind, in a labyrinth of lonely
passages, filled with cobwebs and

imitation worms to scare my unwary
thoughts imprisoned there, crawling
along, looking for the nearest exit

I want to blow my mind with sugar
overload, the anticlimax of this day
should be erased from my memory