Guessing Game of Blame

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. - Thoreau

walking around alone, lame

surrounded by scads of people doing the same

i'm dying but no one knows it

no one reaches out to take my hand

no one knows my name

they don't want to

why should they

after all, it's just a game

they can't feel my nightmare's pain

they point at me with their eyes as they pass by

not wanting to see

after all, what's in a name

an impressionist painting

mounted in a surreal frame

leaning against a cracked, chipped wall of disdain

in this mad, guessing game of blame

Author's Note

"A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work." - Thoreau

Reviews

[TobyStevens3q]

Thanks for sharing you can play the game right here

[Pete]

not a fun game to play, especially if you're on the losing end.

[Poetic Beauty]

This makes me think of a homeless person needing help or even simple touch; yet people walk by as if they aren’t even there. Invisible to those who don’t want to acknowledge for fear being penniless may somehow be contagious.

[Pete]

yes, exactly. i actually was homeless for a while - stayed in shelters and had to spend a night outside during one winter, huddling in doorways and entranceways to keep warm and trying to sleep under bushes. you feel like you're from another planet or are a leper. i don't regret having gone through that though as that's when you really find out who you are. makes you appreciate things more.

[Poetic Beauty]

Sadly it happen to a lot of hard working people for one reason or another. I’m glad you have used that terrible experience as a better way to look at life now.

[Thomas W Case]

Powerful and poignant. Fantastic work, Pete.

[Pete]

thank you twc.

[Patricia Wedel]

dear Pete… a Kiss of Fame when Shadows cast a Rainbow Trout in a Lake where Dragons Weep. Softly, Pat

[Pete]

you have the soul of a poet - how divine.

[Patricia Wedel]

Whoa Pete you have given a Country girl a Bunch of flowers… Thank you. softly, Pat

[PennyVfaldezss]

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