Everyone's Playground

i know you dont need me

because

i

am

broken

*

unable to function

i try
living in the lie
that is truth

i ask
someone to help me breathe
but i get scolded by the asphyxia
that dreams within your veins

i smile
and force the belief
that counterclockwise tomorrows
do not fall from my eyes

but the fixed line
becomes cracked

again

only misleading me to understand
that
imperfection strays
while the flawless remains

yet
i am still here

split between the imaginary doorway of a whispering evaporation

seeking refuge

in a field of awakened sleep

slowly
living
death
eternally.


[Poem by Me -- Jeannete -- Circa 2008]