POEM: Looking For A Way Out
This was my CPC Saturday share poetry challenge composition. Cheryl’s line was “Looking for a way out.” The text came out too small in the PnP so I am printing it below.
I know that your wounded heart is held by a suture,
and that thin little thing holds the key to your future.
Keep that suture-protector quite close to your heart.
Then sleep till you wake and must remove the dart.
Your heart will bleed out, then your spirit will roam
o’er the waves with their frothy white sea caps of foam.
I’ll join you out there in your leaky old boat
We’ll pledge: never again will we order the goat.
We’ll get down on the floor and write a collab poem.
If cops knock on our door we’ll pretend we’re not home.
When outside displays naught but coldest dark weather.
You’ll ride my a** hard with your whips and your leather.
I’ll tickle your feet with a big peacock feather.
(Which reminds me: never say Peacock to a self-conscious man.
Avoid that at all costs if you possibly can!)
We’ll promise to take us where we’ve never been,
while huddled together and sharing our skin.
Never again will we fear being caught
in a sneaky little plot when our freedom is bought.
I’ve got to go now, but I will be back later.
I was just kidding; I’m a poetry satyr.
No really, I’ll see you later alligator
after I explode from my old life detonator.
Why don’t we escape in that same elevator
where I was once trapped with a wild masturbater?
Now just one floor to go before we reach the top!
Let’s hope before then it won’t come to a stop.
Where did everyone go? Stress is taking its toll.
I hope they come back and make everything whole.
Perhaps somewhere where there’s no carpet of snow
we’ll find fields of poppies are able to grow.
Who cackled: “poppies, poppies will get them to sleeping!”
“Drat! Poppy magic doesn’t work when they’re *bleep*ing.”
The lesson is clear and it oft bears repeating:
Do not waste a moment while two hearts are beating.
Beauty in red flows from seeds that we sow
Some fine day in the future will be time to say: Go!
Then those who care for us will finally shout:
THERE THEY GO NOW: THEY HAVE FOUND THEIR WAY OUT!
Copyright October 14th 2011 RGD
The life-changers who played a line: Angel Love (2), Bella (4), dee (2), Diane (3), Glenn, Jackie (4), JT, Lady “Cheryl” Death, LS (4), Michelle K (5), silver lining.