Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Stiletto Deep


I seem to be stiletto deep
Can’t focus, looking through
A sleep that won’t commit
Fully to functions outside
It’s fevered dormancy

Fountains frustrate the truth
Sickling out the weakest,
Pillaging through a haze
That won’t forget, that
Forgiveness must be learned,
A condition often a condition
Of itself

I seem to be stiletto deep
Can’t observe, won’t stay
Still, through a veil of damask
Lines, purporting a truism
One can never find, lost, completely lost,
Wholly, completely wholly.

And I wonder what’s the best I’m able to
And I wonder what that would cost


4 comments:

  1. Your last two lines really resonated with me. So difficult to get over the stuckness and to pay the prices required. k.

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  2. Yeah getting stuck is quite the crap out of luck, lost in ones own state of haze as the eyes glaze. Such a feeling is a pain to get indeed. As it can't be caught only dug deeper and deeper.

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  3. i have had a stilleto deep in my back...haha...Forgiveness must be learned,
    A condition often a condition
    Of itself...those are some pretty cool and deep lines brother...

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  4. first...love the reading and the reflective mood of the poem...stiletto deep is a very cool image..and there always is a price to pay...for everything... and sometimes the things that seem to be the most basic seem to cost us everything..

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