Freight Train

I don't sleep anymore
my eyes swim in a pool 
of bloodshot indifference
Don't recognize the woman
in the mirror...she's
much prettier than I'll ever be.
Can't tell time
Time never listened to 
what I had to say.
But it's running me over

I don't know up from down
these days
Seems the tides keep washing
my dirty castles to sea
My head throbs
My feet hurt
Whose shoes am I wearing?
This is not my 
ordinary sin
And it's running me over.

I don't breathe anymore
Can't waste life on the dead
man...that's what they said
I don't have the answers
for the riddles and the 
puzzles, stuck in my head.
And it's hurting 
More every minute
I can see it coming
Then it's running me over.

I don't have care
these days
Novocaine keeps numbing these
silent...sirens
and they're begging to wail.
Read the book
seek out the madness
recover the Blindness.
girl...it's all in your head.
And then you're running me over again.

2-8-97

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