Poem: On Lockless Keys and Keyless Locks Written by: Alan Lisanti (2015)

On Lockless Keys and Keyless Locks

Written by: Alan Lisanti (2015)

Website:  Misanthropic Poetry

From the depths

The creeping doubt

Pours out

Crawls up the spine

It's claws impale

Cold bones

Nerves kick into frenzy

Chaos unleashed

From where it looms

It resides in the silence

More deafening

With greater distance

More oppressive with

You and your paranoia

On an island all your own

Induced isolation

Or the illusion

That leads you astray

All roads lead to

The labyrinth

Of cruelty

Back to the voice

That never leaves

Well enough alone

All to convince you

That something was wrong

Something's been wrong

You flip the switch

To automatic

And set the sails

Toward tunnel vision

All the world

A blur of insignificant

Details and information

All useless to the

Stranger that can not

Trace his way home

I've carved craters

Into caverns of

Obliterated Earth

Searching for the way

To suffocate it

Crawled into the hole

My unrest had created

Built a new world

From the rubble and ruin

Of that reality

And it still followed me

To the bitterest end

And waited

...to transcend

From the camouflage

Of an outstretched shadow

Like a parasitic symbiosis

To the breathing apparatus

And I am just the heart

And in my mind

Your mind or mine?

I never know where it ends

I never know where to start