Hello It's Me

Alice in wonderland

"Who are you?" said the caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied rather shyly, "I-I hardly know, sir, just at present-at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then."

Written by: Lewis Carrol

The Blinds

I sit behind closed
Blinds
The sun sneaking
Through

I can't see it
Barely there
Peaking in on
My solitude

Go away,
The world.
I need not be
In you right now

The other window
Is too open
And blinds me

I sit in solitary
Waiting for the clouds
That are in my mind
To go away
And for the blinds
To open

I have no voice
For it is silent
Numb by your words

They take away
The very roots of
Myself

I become empty
Nothing
No one

I am nobody
With nothing to say…

Air

I cannot breath today
The air is too heavy
My mind to slow
To catch the wind

It wraps around me
And I don't see it
Only a blur

Of empty space
Waiting for me to
Open my mouth

And swallow what
Surrounds me…

PLANE OF MANIA

I'M TAKING OFF
INTO THE CLOUDS
OF BLUE EMPTINESS

HEIGHT IS RISING
SO AM I

THE CLOUDS CALL ME
INTO THEIR WHITENESS

I SEE CHARACTERS
THEY SMILE BACK AT ME

SAORING ABOVE THE EARTH
TO NOWHERE
NO MAP
NO ROADS
NO DESTINATION
FREEDOM

SOUL IS LIGHT
NEED NOWHERE TO BE
FLYING TOWARDS
FREEDOM
NOT WANTING TO LAND

The past is just a fragment
Thrown into the wind
Dusty
Cluttered

The mind only
becomes free

As the fragments
Fade away
Into empty peices
Of shattered
Mirrors

Poetry copyright(c)1998 Holly Reilly BACK TO THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD