Monday, January 5, 2015

Blur

so much going on around me
while I lay in half-sleep of half-flu
weakened and chilled like a rag in a mangle
raising the head is hard, let alone a hand,
the eyes cannot stay open longer than a minute
and life floats by like a blur, like a movie
at the end of the reel, just flashing and flapping
no meaning that registers in the brain
no activity more important than breathing
no desire greater then huddling beneath a blanket
and regaining the will to live, to do, to dance
through the room and gather dust from my head

and fog from my brain to blow it all away