Long Night on the Couch

Joel Audu


Homage I lay to pay
Sleep the night’s therapist
Like buzzing mosquitoes
Mind bugging thoughts
To bite all struggling
The bites of reality
Painful yet mild
The final diag-nonsense
Ambidextrously ambivalent
Should I be or not be?
Reasons, causes of actions
Degree of intentionality
Consequences for each choice!
Am I sane or crazy?
Very easy yet onerous
What world is this?
Virtually vicious yet virtuous
Big questions big decisions
The choice of life
What are your flaws?
Are they truly flaws?
Can I exist without flaws?
Or indulge persistently?
A chance at life do I have?
Scene or situation
Which do I change?
If time I could turn
Painful bites would I burn
Leaving ashes of peace
Not coals of crisis
In morrow’s vase
Revitalizing not reviling
The self and others
Time many times offended.

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