I watch from a parallel universe.
Time moves faster here.
Somebody ELSE,
Somebody,
Has taken over my body.
She stumbles with her words,
Laughs at her mistake,
Makes a joke about the scene,
And in that joke, botches a phrase yet again.
God it's tedious.
There she goes.
Pulling at her neck,
As if by one last tug some dark cloud might lift
And equilibrium - lost one star-crossed summer's day years past,
Would fly to meet her begging hand
And hold her like a babe.
But no.
So dig a little deeper, then!
Pick at scars to mine a way out of the wound.
What never works,
Will surely work.
This time.