Studying Poem by Dereck Gibbs

Staring at this book
Seeing letters make war
Grammatical beings massacred
I can’t make sense of it

I observe in fascination
Words watch me back
Comatose in time
No comprehension

I close my eyes
I see them in my mind
They haunt me
Torturous poltergeists

Reaching out to grab
Trying to identify
Grasping thin air
My mind disorganized

Definitions trip me up
Defining mental disarray
A perpetual clutter
There is no escape

Is there no light?
No way out?
Lost with no compass
Studying…it’s too hard