Red Light, Green Light

4/10/11

Wrap me up

take this sheet

Egyptian cotton

600 thread count

smoky gray fibers

use it as a shroud

not forever

I just need rest

cocoon me in this room until

the world stops spinning so damn FAST

til I can see the tunnel's end again

the powers gone out in Wonderland

and a rabbit hole's a lonely place without the lights on

so please...

just for a week or so

smother me

in ebony and ivory

whittle a melody I can drown in

like only your hands can manage

make the pounding stop

the storm calm

I'm holding on

for green lights

highlighting the black silhouettes

but eventually

they gotta turn red

Will I awake when they do?

laugh that it's a dream

will the breaker get flipped

just in time for Sunday morning cartoons?

as the choir belts out the Hallelujah chorus

do fantasies like that come true?

I'm not ready to for a no

so please, wrap me up

let my eyes see just lids

just this once can i get

that sympathy I've been begging for

for YEARS

not forever just for now

please,

shut it all out

please,

take me away from here.

I'm barely breathing.