| This Edition's Poetry |
Elizabeth Kotcher is our featured poet this edition.
I am in Chains
I am in chains, my lord, my tongue is tied
But I am not ashamed of these armed guards
My guilt has but one ally within my tortured mind
Its knowing you are waiting, the physic saw you in my cards
I spend my days of payback in my breathless, suffocating cell
I think of thoughts too dark for your beloved ears
My written words you’ll humor and instantly dispel
Why then do I spend hours writing with eyes in tears?
I wrote to you my thoughts, my cunning past, my burning
I told you my recurring dreams of narrow mazes black
I purred my heart out, told you I am to you returning
I felt your breath and all my fears came rushing back
I will not face the winding, silent road of the unknown
I struggle between death and your rejection
I want so much to hold you, hear you moan
I take my life; to lose you is heaven to my vein’s injection.
by Elizabeth Kotcher
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Commentary:
This poem was written in about 3 minutes, I felt a sudden desire to express a situation in which I felt trapped, I thought about how many people feel trapped everyday of their lives, you’re trapped when you love someone and you have no control over whether they will love you back, you’re trapped when you have an illness you cannot control, you’re trapped by life’s events and finally we are trapped by our own minds which is what the poem is about…it felt like a 3 minute seizure.