Duration

Duration            5/27/2015

I bled for 418 days

Before I even knew 

What I had lost

Agonizing through, ten thousand hours

Neither, dead or alive.

The blessing comes undeserved

But it remains

Through character

And integrity. 

But anything can happen

And anything can change

As we all watch dumbfounded

A slow rolling disaster.

A sacrifice

Split our world in half

Cutting us off

Neither halfway up

Or halfway down.

A televised kill zone

Triangulated on cue

As we all crawl forward

One inch at a time.

It is a strange thing

To view the past backwards

Lost down a rabbit hole

And far away from home.

Up is down

And down is up

Where reality is fake

And the truth a riddle.

Desensitized to death

The murders become a ritual

Focused by a camera

And socially engineered.

Even what is random

Can make sense from afar

But the future remains a mystery 

That no one can predict. 

Time elapses,

And folds over upon itself

Only because we do not believe 

And doubt the truth.   

It has been 3,460 days

Since I last, was sleeping

Awakened in the night

Snake bitten and dead.

Keep going 

And keep watching 

Always awake 

And always alert.