Click

Click    8/13/15

It happens in an instant.

A click.

A tangible click from a turnstile.

The entrance to a distinctive journey.

An excursion only for the ticketed.

It happens in an instant.

An impulsive click pushes you forward.

You have reached the beginning.

The instigation of your destiny.

It happens in an instant.

People enter their own worlds

and disregard my existence.

Always rejected at this foreboding turnstile.

It always happens in an instant.

Someone telling me they can't handle me 

and that I must return to the back of the line.

It is there that I notice

how hot the sun can be.

How unbearable waiting truly is.

It must happen the instant

I look away.

I seem unable to hear the click.

Incompetent to move forward

and join the rest of you.

It seems I’ll be stuck here forever.

Standing stagnant at this dismal turnstile,

always waiting to hear my

click

and finally enter a place where I feel welcomed.

Tunnel Vision

You people need to snap the eff out of it!

Tunnel Vision       3/31/15

So damn focused you can’t even blink.

I’m tired of flailing around you.

Purging heaps of advice into your insolent mouth.

You seem to only hear his mumble through my howl.

Focusing only on his speck of light at the end of your tunnel vision.

Your eyes only dart from the places he goes.

Your ears only hear the things he says.

Your imprudent sense of self-worth only revolves around his actions.

We are all still here, too, ya know?

Yet you have placed us within the linings of darkness that surround your tunnel vision.

You have become blind to us and blinded by him.

I refuse to be sabotaged to live on the outer rim of your focus.

Wasting away somewhere in your distance.

If only you’d blink.

A blink taking you out of your tunnel for just one moment 

so you could see all the different specks of light that make up your life.

But you are so implacable

you've destined yourself to stare into his one speck of light for so long

that now all your eyes are merely muddled to see is

all of

NOTHING.