Nine To Five Poem by Briony Nicholls

Nine To Five

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My head, brimming with the bees
Of a day’s fill of other people’s voices, is
Thoroughly soaked through, a noisy beehive
That is scratching & plying the cranium interior
That has long since become bereft of its own voice

The danger of this condition belies
Its apparent harmlessness, for its roots are pure madness
Everyday is spent – expelling, expelling!
And then in shaky defence
Fortifying against further invasion

But in this stupor of semi-consciousness
Re-feeling a twitch of authentic life
I, too, have an incredible impulse to write
To re-feel the poetry of life
That can carry me to those transcendental shores of light

But the hand of the paralytic poet,
Disabled, lives in a dream-state that is half-baked,
No mark on reality can its mind-focus make,
As it trudges along half-consciously,
Always spent in search of something else

Through the torture-rack of nine to five -
The heart of the fruit sucked out
Shrivelled apple skins in the sun
I appeal to a God-filled eternity
Through the eye of this insatiable inanity!

Saturday, May 2, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: poetry
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