Yesterday Meanings

 

Such maddening fate,

O why must it be

Thoughts lucid and free

Must struggle for life

Through carious words?

 

Quick!  A look within

The lightning's swift flash--

For a glimpse beyond--

One fleeting moment

Ascends day's endless

Dark, pond'ring nights.

 

A struggle for words,

Of language deficient

Through eyes of the mind

With futile attempt

Their sights to express,

Tho one step beyond

Ears veiled with the film

Of yesterdays stale.

 

Like a suckling babe

Blindly seeks comfort

Of heartbeats familiar,

What's known brings comfort

As evolution,

Unseen, passes by.

 

Intoxicating,

Delirious thoughts,

Discover foreign

Their native tongue,

Ambushed in useless

Yesterday meanings.

 

O, cursed torment,

With my mind ablaze,

Speechless and speaking

To ears hearing words

Crumbling, faltering

In familiarity.

 

Anguished songs, pleading,

Sing in the shadows

As they fall deafened

Upon ears unknowing

To the sounds

Of my music.

 

                                                                       

Barbara Benjamin

Free Verse                                  

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