some days are darker than others


Inside the Crystal Ball

inside the crystal ball
my face is distorted, my life unreal
inside the crystal ball is the prison
of what I feel
reflections and rejections
prisms of colors varied and clear
inside the crystal ball are eternal voices
of mirrored echos I hear
nightmares and daydreams
revolve, spinning in waves of sounds
the crystal ball breaks and the glass sphere
crumbles, tumbling down
fluid spills across the matter
and washes my face clean of its design
all the world is turning while I lose 
my demented mind

tell me of the future
tell me of the past
tell me of the the present
in the jagged mirrored glass

warped in the light of star deaths
swallowed into the black hole
down into the void of vastness
you will not hear the scream as I go
for all is mute and darkened
and the crystal ball is nothing but sand
lying in the hell of depression
lost in the silence of this empty lonely land.





Poetry by Kathy Lockhart
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Written on 2008-10-07 at 00:57

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Phyllis J. Rhodes
Intense and profound piece. Very affective.
Just an observation: the crystal ball also lies. It has no powers of its own, but only that which the gazer gives it. It's reflection is designed to bend light, distorting reality. That's exactly what depression is, distortion of reality. We can't function right when our reality doesn't fit with true reality. Been there, done that, got the pills!
2008-10-08



A text that depicts all shades of black, in a luminous way.

(There'll come lighter days, too, little by little, more and more.)
2008-10-08


Mr painter
Great poem
2008-10-07


Arti
There are days, and there are days. Perhaps you think these days are unlivable, the rest of us mortals like the poetry they produce.

Hugs,
Arti.
2008-10-07


Dee Daffodil
I like this poem. My favorite part is...
tell me of the future,
tell me of the past
tell me of the present
in the jagged mirrored glass...
That's awesome !!! Very entertaining piece !
Hugs,
Dee
2008-10-07