It's hard to deny confusion
when her confident, unyielding stare
is fixed into your eyes.
It's such an easy thing,
to downplay this disease
which can cause so much doubt,
when down could be up, and left
is almost certainly right.
You're not sure why it is
that you can only walk at night,
or why you feel the need to poison yourself
to little or no avail.

Lets talk of moving away
and finally making that change.
Not too big a distance
but to a new and exciting landscape,
a vision we've only briefly visited.
Don't care for the cuisine,
but the weather seems good enough.
True, we don't know the area,
and the prices may be steep.
Also the climate can be a little erratic
but that adds to the charm.

Suddenly that sickening feeling returns.
An unavoidable temptress, wrestles her way into sight.
Whether she enjoys it or not
her relentless tormenting will not stop,
at least until I can rest my aching head.
In the morning I'll have slept my uncertainty away,
but I have no doubt she'll be waiting
with her confident, unyielding stare.

03/11/2008

Posted on 03/11/2008
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