Helplessness - Pauline Bain
I feel helplessness as I stare at the wall
it doesn't move - where to?
Should I walk out that door
into the nothing of nowhere and the cold of crying
so I stay

I look out the window instead
I look out the window hoping to hear
a voice of salvation crying in my ear
crying in my head, coming to me
here in my bed

Alas all I see is the helplessness of a tree
As she is strangled and torn by the wind
is it me?

Am I causing the pain & the strife & the knife
which cuts and infects with helplessness blight?

I look within, with a clear diamond gaze
unclouded by sin
for sin is like gin,
eating away a whole in the tummy
Until the dark half remains unglazed.

 

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