*home* Poem by Daniel Richards

Give me a reason, for not sleeping
In this contest of life I’m awake but dreaming
There must be something, something I’m missing
Full of retorts and rage my mind is bleeding

I lost my sight and got cast aside
Lost inside this mind of mine
A misadventure a battering tide,
A place so perfect a place alone, a place sublime my inner zone

Imagery tick tocks explosion of enlightenment in this place of mine
Frozen in motion are my words, but hectic are the pictures rolling in reverse
Loose my words as I have it all to describe, so now I have
Something to say, but it’s lost on you all and just fades away

Have no home in a million places, same ignored truths by changing faces
On borrowed time living with missing faces, I make a change in my pace
I lay and close my eyes,
No words in mouth, as I have it all to describe

For no reason I lost the feel of seasons
So a front is erected for the purpose of deceiving but,
Behind this curtain I’m really hurting, as deep down
I’m a real person, just beaten and broken into mental conversion

So I’ll remain lost inside this paradise of mine
A place so far a place so near, a place of heart and no fear
So forever and always ill reside, away from all the orthodox lies
And remain in this palatial paradise of mine.