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Poetry: Exile

by Kelly Steier

Exile

Lost among the remnants of a life not quite lived

beyond the notion of appearances that remain unfilled

in a quant, yet ruffled sense of fortitude

surrounded by images that flash by and create

that was once there..no more

Exiled from reality.

The white walls crawl with endless lines

of hope when it existed through twisted

and bound by an endless cord

that gently moves and bobs from sanity to

the insanity that caresses the corridors

of a place for those who are easily forgotten

exiled by hopelessness.

Once upon a time on the sullen streets of yore,

she had something that became nothingness

like the darkness that crept slowly into a soul

that was no more,

for pain dulled the senses and if you cannot feel

you can not cry out for injustices

that were undone, unsaid, unbelieved

by those who dared to cared

for the one who was exiled by all the tomorrows

never to be.

And now waiting impatiently for the dim light

to beckon dawn through the windowless room

that has become a self-implied wombs of sorts

and creates stories from the nothingness

of a lost life that spoke so soon and now silenced

and dulled by a loneliness that became implicit

she stares on at a ceiling counting the endless tiles

and knows that her exile is just the beginning

of the end that never stops or waits

in a hellish existence of naught.


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