Being And Seeker by Elena Ray
skinning genes
Watching this happen to you from afar
is not just distressing but right on par
with not watching me when it happened here.
Caused by stress you might say but I do fear
that, like our height and our brown hair, these screams
pulsing inside us came straight from our genes.
You can choose, of course, to just let it ride
but depression can't be taken in stride--
nor the despair of the weakening soul
that searches for the elusive loophole,
nor the task of the body to survive
the booze and the pills flying this nosedive.
Come back to yourself, sweet being of Light,
before you succumb to your last midnight.
MLydiaM ~ May 2012
Written for dVerse Poets Pub FormForAll, where Samuel Peralta's (aka Semaphore1) stimulating prompt inspires us to compose a Clarion Sonnet (please click link for description and information, along with links to other Clarion Sonnets----and certainly do not miss the one written by Semaphore himself).
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