A Depressed Soul

I can not help but to be
Pessimistic
When there is not
A speck of light
Within these closed
Eyelids on mine. -

Plastic mirth and
Celophane coated eyes
Induce a phony dearth
Of plagued ideas,
Those ingrained negative
Connotations that open
My mind

To the realms of the
Gods in the abyss
Of mine own shredded,
War torn heart.

I can feel nothing
But hatred. I feel the
Desire to belong,
But I can not sense
Myself as anything other
Than scarred and useless.

There is a hole right
Through the center
Of me. How it got there,
I don't know.

I can not help but laugh
When I see a plastic
Man cry when his
Life is stolen right
Before his very eyes.

My pain and solitude
Can only be amused when
One of them tries
To make a play
At my grand charade.

A distant look,
From you.
Anxiety feels me to the
Brim, all I want is
To be accepted.
Is that such an
Awful request?

I lie awake
At night
Pondering on this
Or on that
And I am constantly
Stumped by the
Answer to mine
Own question.

Why am I the
One who prowls on
Tip toe when
All I have to do
Is ask this -
Beautiful creature

To stay the night
With me and
Share my soul?

How is it that
I'm stoppered
By the desires
That set me free
On these grazing
Gorillas?

What am I scared
Of when I speak
To a female? What
Is that bitter
Gaul that
Coagulates in my
Throat

When I try to speak
To anyone about anything?

I am not my father,
I am not my mother,
Nor am I any of
those plastic
Fools that play.
Then what am I?

Is there a name
For the disease
That I am?
My personality
Is caustic and
Leeches out of
My plastic Lunch box.

The things that
I give myself
credit for
Are not the things,
Exactly, what
These plastic
Men tell me
That I am.

The depth of mine
Own sense of who I
am is the breadth
of my personality.

My perception of
Time and mine own
Image are as blurred
as a bug
Splattered on
A windshield.

This living room
I have labeled
The seventh
Circle of hell.
It is not much, it
is the only other
Place that
You will catch me
Outside of where
I dwell.

My room reeks
Of my decay.
The tomb of
Everyday smudged
With the blossoms
Of my false
Charade.

I live only
In my mind,
For I am too
Blind
To see otherwise.


BLP - 11/18/02