A.E.J. Jordan

Tie me to a chair with ribbons
Patent leather lead-lined shoes
With a white glove hold my chin
Fully knowing my mind I’ll lose
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On my last day as me on earth
The things that mean the very most
When all together will expand
No further than my own two hands
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With the suicidal state I was in
You should have stayed and been my friend
Instead you thought of just yourself
And hit the door and were selfish
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Through a thin veil
There is a light
That is so pure
That is so white
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Limbo Life in Limbo Land
Time stands still and nothing changes
Grains of sand aren’t rearranging
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Chilling crystal clear blue coldness
Such a perfect still like snowflake
Crisp and sharp don’t feel a thing
Weightless body sprouting wings
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Strapped with thick leather belts
With the head metal gear
Chains that rise to the skies
Storms that moan and groan
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Just follow the line
The center red line
The directions made easy
For the dimmest of minds
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I well deserve
What I’ve received
I should have left
Last century
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Testing room
Testing time
See my breathe
Testing voice
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I wake up in the night
It’s a black 3 a.m.
I clutch at my chest
Cause the pain that I’m in
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He stayed in their house
To be near to his wife
She had died long ago
They vowed married for life
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It's taken me almost half a century to realize that I've been mistaken
mistaken about what I had accepted as one of life's most painful, sad realities
the inevitable struggle inherent to all who are part of the human race
Traveling through the labyrinth I remembered something from my childhood
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Staring straight over top of my white knuckles now
A surreal movie scene in my head round and round
Just a flick of my wrist and my car would go reeling
Straight into a tree trunk so that’s how I’m dealing
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Reaching out for someone
I unfold all my fingers
Stretching one at a time
Not a single expectation
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DAM

A
Gray
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Sleeping completely forever
Just dreaming
Not feeling
Or hurting
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One most life altering thing to remember
An obsession to embrace not ignore
Is to be extraordinarily careful
Who or what you invite through your door
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It worms its way into my dreams
With it's noxious fluid that seeps into my mind's cracks
Waves of vertigo that drive me down and down again
Muted
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