Escape Mechanism

narrative verse

 

 

Escape Mechanism

 

I was in pain, in agony

 and saw no way to gain relief.

Then all at once I seemed to be

 beside myself quite literally.

 

 Some how I had escaped my pain

 just left my agony behind

so I was comfortable again.

I thought at first I was insane.

 

And yet I knew I was still me

but by some magic of my mind.

I had escaped I’d struggled free.

Although it felt quite strange to see.

 

My body sitting in my chair.

To see myself from the outside.

 As though I was both here and there.

I found it rather hard to bear.

 

I wondered then if I had died

and that was how I came to be

Observing myself from outside

 I understood I must decide

 

 I had a choice to be pain free

and leave the life I knew behind.

I chose somewhat reluctantly

 and I returned immediately.

 

Back to the inside looking out

I don’t pretend to understand

what happened but I have no doubt.

Although I rarely talk about.

 

The day I found that I could be

 in two places at one time.

Experience simultaneously

to be pain wracked and be pain free.

 

I sometimes voluntarliy

decide to take a holiday

 from aches and pains which distress me.

Be pain free temporarily.

 

All men must die and so will I,

 I do not let it worry me.

But until then I can but try

 to bear my suffering patiently.

 

When it gets to much to bear

 I close my eyes and I escape

 to somewhere else I‘m not sure where

nor do I think I really care.

 

1-Oct-08

 

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Reviews

[a]

stereotypical and to cliche/ sorry, but i think this poem really is too simple and pragmatic, whilst the theme itself gives very, very wide possibilities to fly free and wild.