Madman's Box
By Melancholic VIncent
Nothing here is yours
And it doesn’t belong to you
These walls heard and saw
The one that inhabited here
Foreigner that claimed this room
Long monologues, speeches of
sanity in decline
Satiric deliriums, stammering fantasies that
faded there
These doors listened and spied
Through the
hole in the narrow lock
Invisible presence that secretly witnessed
everything
Nocturnal shadows, occulted dark eyes of somebody that
were elsewhere
Floating breezes, howled gelid screams as if somebody
were there
These windows whispered and stalked
Over that
solitary that lived there
Trees camouflaged in the darkness of the
night
Rooted creatures, twisting themselves to the wind of centuries
Impertinent crosses, static before the tempest of feelings
That room, decadent as the soul of the temporary inhabitant
Was a nightmare that he couldn’t wake up
Black flames climbed
over the pale walls
As if it was a surreal painting about an unreal
world
But they were part of a real world in that demented mind
Photographs of faces that now were unknown
Deck of cards
that awaited some fate
Books aged by time with missing dates
Furniture filled with remembrances that memory can’t recall
Shelves covered with tapes that held no recordings
In
this cell which he was free
But forever trapped
Were a past
unknown
Lied incognito the identity
Amnesic, knowing nothing,
nor possessing anything
The sands of time were long gone
To never come back
And all the belongings, to another they belong
now
Because everything was given to him, but he lost it all
All that remained were the doubt of existence
As thin as air
As empty as ashes
Comments on "Madman's Box"
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A former member wrote:
I'm shocked. You could be famous, you know.. If the world was a different place. A truly divine place. Good work, friend.
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On Tuesday, July 3, 2012, Melancholic VIncent
(428) wrote:
Me famous? why is that? I think i am afraid of success lol I like to be off-radar, but it's good when people recognize my valor :) Thanks very much for your comment. I'll check your work later!
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On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Invisible Girl
(134) wrote:
Wow this is great. I had to read it three times..my favorite line is "rooted creatures,twisting themselves to the wind of centuries". I would love to see you write something wrapped around that line. Haunting..
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On Thursday, June 21, 2012, Melancholic VIncent
(428) wrote:
Thanks so much! Well, maybe sometime I will :) Keep your comments alive
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On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, dwells
(4177) wrote:
To inherit the amnesiac's possessions, or maybe only suffering from senile dementia perhaps? Unless we are talking about self perhaps too?? MUch to ponder and thoroughly enjoyed the exercise, thanks! Oh, "gelid" is a great word!
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On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Melancholic VIncent
(428) wrote:
I guess i never thought about this one, but i guess, this is what is loss with any kinds of insanity. But yes, the interpretations are widely possible. Sometimes the poet/artist makes a work, and the work tells him the many forms that i can take. We create something, but it's the creation that teaches the creator. There's a portuguese word "gélido" that i wanted here, it's more than cold, but not exactly frozen, and "gelid" seems the only matching word for the idea that i wanted. Always good to see your comments Dan. Your comments are insightful