STRESS RELATED ILLNESS – a silhouette

the body, this body
  is a temple
with fonts and pews
  and stained glass windows
  eggshells on the floor
places
  where holy people go
on long, summer nights
  when the wind blows east
  through your closet shutters
you walk through parkland
  into imagined places
      soda streams
  of consciousness and divinity
      the unravelling of the mind
you cannot cancel reason
      it is not blind
  it is a buoy resurfacing
      which remembers pain
conflict, care, concern, calamity
      they are ticks in a book
      of remembrance
      of causality
      of memoir
      and exchange
landscapes of merging colour
    bitter blue
    grey mist
    ember green
    burnt charcoal
skies descend to night
    their gossamer skirts
    of sullen and quiet normality
stress related illness
    circumnavigates
        universal chemistry
inhibits creativity
    resolve to unwind
        to find the paradigm
              of your mind

©edenbraytoday12.08.2024