Speaking From Deadly Experience
i know a soul can\'t act
via the sub-conscious,
but through one\'s consciousness
it can tell a man
some of what that sub-conscious
saw, heard, and even did
during a psychotic split...
i wonder if
comatose people
can relate
to these things
and say how
their spirit felt
as their conscious
self stirred awake;
if they too sensed
fear at being separate,
that dread of being
not dead but
nothing more
than trapped within
an invisible skin
that has no shape,
no controllable form;
no influence over
what\'s going on
beyond
the searching of
their mind\'s
isolated eye;
if they too have a sense
of what it\'s like to die.
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Soul Searching
The mirror presents me
with my body\'s interaction
with light
~ even the eyes
deflect the question
where am i?
...my being
lodged inside
the black hole of my mind.