Now let me recede

Nico Samuels

Now let me recede

Give me a sedative of your choosing,

and let me stare off and lose myself

in the tiny cracks of my mind

decorated with fading memories of

What I and time nearly forgot,

but what I manage to cling too–

vestiges of innocence which were

heartlessly ripped from you and I

and all our cohorts

who sought “truth” too soon!

 

THAT WORD IS MEANINGLESS NOW

 

Let me stare off and lose myself

in the tiny cracks of my mind

Soon they will all turn to breaking waves

clutching consciousness; memorizing its new patterns

 

If you can, please keep me restrained. Make me to sit.

Still as still