Two Minutes

Two Minutes                                     10/26/2015

I am the target

And I can feel it every day

Stuck on me like a parasite

Sucking me dry. 

I am like a husk

Empty and blank

Wrapped up

And hollowed out.

In the darkness

The stars have died

Fewer and fewer

Than a long time ago. 

I did not know then

How all of it would burn

The whole world I loved

And everything I knew.

The ashes blow away

And leave nothing but gray

Living in an alien world

Full of lies. 

All that is spoken

Does not mean a thing

Because facts don’t matter

Not here

And not now.

Void of joy

And void of peace

I sit looking at the door

My hands free

And ready.

Gone are the days

Of free range abandon

And mute are the good

Hamstrung and threatened.

Close the gate

But look the other way

Bearing down

Above and behind.