Poetry

Wonder-lost (performance piece?)

What is

Behind

the old and heavy locked doors

corroded and rusted shut

ashamed

ofallthethingsitneverknew

like

how broken we can be

how hard it is to see clearly

when we are hiding

behind so many doors

so many

old heavy (dead weight)

locked corroded (worn by time and weathered)

rusted shut (crumbling, encrusted and crammed enclosure)

Nailed as if

Nailed as if

Nailed as if

The sun could rise AND STILL

be unseen, unfelt behind closed doors

behind all those closed doors

all those closed doors

closed doors

doors

doors of fear

doors of hate

doors of anger

doors of identity

doors of shame

doors of Ino Awl

doors of Wudiph Ididnt

doors of Wudsbea Hindawl ThoZ doors

doors of Ifime Knot Bette R. Thanyu, Wudami?

WATCH OUT!

The floor YOU are standing on just gave way

you fall

and fall

and fall

You don’t know

what to do

who you are

who to call FOR HELP to find out WHOYOUARE

(If I don’t know who I am; how shall I proceed?)

(I don’t know what I need!)

(What happens when the falling floor STOPS

and there is no sound?)shhhh..

I WILL BE ALL ALONE

I WILL (TO) BE

I WILL (TO) KNOW WHAT TO WILL

I WILL TO KNOW WHO I AM

WHO AM I WHEN I AM ALONE

AND THERE IS NO SOUND

as if it is not nailed

as if it is not nailed down

as if it is not

as if I am not

as if I am not

But I am NOT not

I AM

I AM NOT not

I AM

BUT I AM

AND

I am NOT

me

How can I be

Not ME?

and me?