Something Always Reminds Me (standard:poetry, 177 words)
Author: Wax	Added: Apr 14 2005	Views/Reads: 3006/0	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Self Analysis, in space and time, no hurry!

Something Always Reminds Me 

Over in the corner 

Stands a six-foot cactus plant 

Impossibly, it tries to smile 

It's trying, but it can't 

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A glow of ghostly moonlight 

Floods the sterile empty room 

The silence pounding in my ears 

Evokes a dreaded doom 

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Again the sultry whisper 

Assures my mental state 

“Go forward to the corridor 

Go forward to your fate” 

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I try to think of lessons learned 

Of what has gone before 

How human nature wills its way 

But I can't ignore that door 

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A clock is chiming somewhere close 

It soothes my rattled nerves 

Time has substance and yet it floats 

On silken swirling curves 

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I see all this in solitude 

As always, I'm alone 

Step by step, reluctantly 

I venture toward the zone 

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The cactus bids me fond farewell 

The clock strikes one last note 

Her whispers urging me along 

To find the antidote 

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Could this be more than I can bear? 

I didn't choose this role 

But, I must admit responsibly 

I exist without a goal 


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