My Little Fishbowl

By cre

Going too fast
Out of consciousness falling
The engine was running
But now it's just stalling

Caught now inside
this reverberating
silence so loud
on my skin is grating

Obsidian dreams
swallow me whole

"50 cents please"
you must pay the toll
if you can't pay
you must not pass

scrounging around
for two quarters fast

5 dimes
take me away
breathe my life different
write a new play

crashing around
in a splashing red sea
glass on the beaches
cutting up me

bleed a new time
for my wandering soul
i never felt trapped
inside this fish bowl
until it crashed
on your mahogany floor
acidic those waters
burned open new doors

smell of wood burning
my heart is racing
thumping too wildly
newer dreams chasing

i want to see
i want to see
the land between the seas
this land, this land
this land between the seas
this land was meant for me

Falling too fast
into consciousness slamming
too many thoughts
into dizzy brains ramming

Exhausted sleep
swallows me whole
no dreams for me
in my little fishbowl.

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Copyright 2003 cre
Published on Thursday, April 3, 2003.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: O................M...................G.............. i freaking love this!!!!!! something about it just jumps out at me but i love this thank you for posting :)

  • CharlottesWeb On Saturday, May 17, 2003, CharlottesWeb (511)By person wrote:

    I think I felt like your fish!! Rushed…this fervent anxiety of knowing that if my dendrites and axons didn’t get going faster and my brain didn’t start processing all the overwhelming complicated new sensations and thought, I was going to lose them!. Some

  • CharlottesWeb On Saturday, May 17, 2003, CharlottesWeb (511)By person wrote:

    Something I couldn’t bare. Wow. Is excellent!~DW~

  • DoctorAsh On Sunday, May 11, 2003, DoctorAsh (373)By person wrote:

    hmmmm and wow and damn and clams .. floating around with barnicles. Stuck to the inside of the skull, shaking loose feelings ... so beautiful. Wets shoes and a half moon, thats where this poemtook me .. very lovely

  • A former member wrote: wow. i seriously love this poem. The imagery in it was intense. I could literally see it as I read it. :)

  • A former member wrote: Oh, why can't I think of anything other than "brilliant" to say...such a word seems hardly adequete...

  • liquid_emotion On Friday, April 4, 2003, liquid_emotion (323)By person wrote:

    wow hectic and brilliant

  • maddin foxxxy On Thursday, April 3, 2003, maddin foxxxy (358)By person wrote:

    again an exellent work cre...i don't need 2 say.

  • Jonas On Thursday, April 3, 2003, Jonas (720)By person wrote:

    read like a song... shattered universe like to a fishbowl...

  • A former member wrote: very nice cre. i enjoyed reading it as usual.


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