Simplify Me

Some days send hours like bullies

Tough as the rough,

Standing tall

I won’t back down

Enough is enough

The night rushes upon me

All I could have done is all I see

How the minutes tick dizzily

Breaking through what is left of me

Scared emotionally

I’m just a woman can’t you see?

Plug me into rest

Like a rechargeable power

Tomorrow will be a full battery

Tonight—simplify me

Lay me into fragile

Like silky folds

Unravel me softly

Wreckage of Fiends

Standing on broken lines

Pacing the streets

Stop!  Caution or sign?

Turn from Reality onto the one-way Dreams

Continue until you reach the screams of Death

Life is ticking no time to rest

Push forward to the gravel of escape

You can’t turn back now it’s too late

Reality always has a scheme

How do you know memories from your dreams?

Prick a hole in your skin…now are you awake?

How to choose what you hold in your arms

A Mother’s love—warm embrace

A lover’s frame—with or without shame

What ever happened to what’s their name?

The one who made you special, before,

Chemical created every occasion

Guest of honor…you

A kingdom that travels

Through a fiend to crown a King

And, dethrone a Queen