Permission To Breathe

Hells ascending black night
Dancing shapes laughingly denied
No flutter of birds at dawn
Rising with life’s new light,
No happy moon peeps
In fairy stories flight as
Pale curtains are slammed tight
Impaling a world in bleakness.

Pillow cradles quiet flow of tears
Miniature pearl drops glistened
Running in bewildered trickles
As saturated cotton clings
Twisting under strangling sheets

Fractured rasps of piteous air
Whistled through lungs of despair

Exasperated
Deflated

While flawed thin ribs
Begged to rise effortlessly
Beseeching to descend restfully

Steady, steady on!

Ebbing in slow motion

Is it time to die yet?

Little feet weep strength
Sway on waves weakly slipping
From deathbed of no breath

Is that white rabbit standing there?
“I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date!
No time to say hello, goodbye!
I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!"

Wait!

Tumbling into sub consciousness
As cotton clings to sweating skin
Shuffling brokenly into obscurity
Upon plush red carpet beneath
Gasping suffocation on bended knees
To see above
A scented angel
No, perhaps a ghost urging.

Expectant fingers pleading release
Phantom smile curls reaching lips
Disdain perfectly in place,

“Say please”

She maliciously whispers
On her smooth expensive knees
Intently hunting playful torture
Eye to eye distortion in
Breathless horror story

Mouth slack catching atmosphere
Pray for shallow soft breeze
In this hungry midnight lair
Swallowing nothing
Except sin she lives in
No words uttered as
Eyelids flutter surrendering
Heart grapples gathering pace
While lungs simply stutter
Rendering memories
With no sweet dreams

I ask permission to breathe