Castle Shima

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
-- Larry Leissner

::: Tower View :::
Lassitude

Exhaustion (among other things)
by Joy Marsh
Today, nothing will be accomplished by me with
determined speech or concise fluid movements.

In others words and to say it simply,
I am tired, tired of the constant icy grip in my neck,
of expectations, of politics, words that instill fear and
confront.

I’ll listen to reason tomorrow. Today I’ll pray for everything I am not.

As I reconcile, fear and doubt mix with the baneful on the
news. It spews a warning shot, so close, so close.
I didn’t move. This is my holy ground.

The death chants that you hear over and over again finally evaporate
as the clear water comes to a boil on the stove.
Free of demands and apocalypse, I sip my tea, then wait for sleep..

Suspended over the room,
a whispered Amen.
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If I die before I learn to speak
Can money pay for all the days
I lived awake
But half asleep?
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