“ GETTING TO THE OTHER SIDE ” – every day poetry 268

11/14/18 @ 13.39.39 

Today’s prompt – Getting to the other side – Terre – Army Strong

(I was late, because i had to eat) 

Getting

I have been there for over 20 years

What do you mean you never met me

The ghost that i am

Crammed into a a body wanting to live

What would you give for a breath of fresh clean air without any of the despair

There is no grass on my other side

I did not see the white light

How about all the flames of hell

Or all the ice – where your frozen just enough to be able to enjoy the misery of your tormentors 

Cringe if you wish

Have you heard my voice 

Have you seen the horror 

have you seen all the fluids escape from the face

Have you seen the hyperventilating 

What have you seen

If me, it is the ghost you experience

On the other side

Getting there was not a problem

Actually it is a problem

Because

I did not get there

I was put there

And no door has opened

No i have been put here

I used to be the life of the party 

Just ask Leo Partible

Maybe many other people know

They have never said it in a writing

Crushed now

Not wanting to go to anything

But wishing i could if i were free

How many times have you seen me depressed

You likely never knew, or don’t know

How a person is hoping to work through it

Induced shock for the pain

No, it is naturally occurring

When so much pain is riveting the body 

And you go nowhere but in a far distance so passed everything and everybody to the abyss

Pain is abyss 

Where you can hear nothing 

See nothing

Feel nothing

Getting to the other side

I want to be back to the side i was on before

I can’t walk there from here

No Uber spelled lyft 

No cab and no hitching

The only journey out of the other side to the side of the living 

It is the equation of LOVE which inseparable from truth

Any true meaning of the verb, the fantasy, the reality, the partial definition of what LOVE is

Like the essence of hearing

Like the essence of listening

Like the essence of consideration

Like the essence of contribution

The essence of being

Getting to the other side 

What side are you going to? 

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