aiming vectors at a wall

 

every day which passes

i feel less and less a part

of your world – this world of

interpersonal communications

in which i float, lost in the maze.

 

i constantly experiment with

emotional and social vectors

inside my mind; this mind, whose

internal causal connections

are my basis, serves only to constrict.

 

i live in continuous frustration

as the world fails to give an inch

against my will – this will that

grows weary of infinite battles

which end in stasis, erasing remnants of desire.

 

every day, i wish for an end

to the blackening cloud overhead.

 

-undated, probably 1997-1998

 

author's note:  just another one of those "working my way out" poems.

 

to the asylum