Blank

The liquid surrounds me My body untouched, unstained Made again Walls of tissue soak me Tightly adjusted My own little cave I think it moves Wobbling motions keep me awake I can hear its pulse Pounding, thumping Providing the sense of time I'm dead weight here But the mind is at ease here Don't interfere There is no sun Only memories of a lifetime are lit and intact I relive my life at double speed Until the final moments As the windscreen cracked I'm dead weight here But the mind is at ease here Don't interfere For the last time and the first time I come across this narrow ray of light Squeezed through the hole Unknown faces enters my line of sight Mobility from steam Woke up from a dream Air fills the lungs to produce an inarticulate scream In the pace that new impressions appear They take the place of the memories, that I hold so dear Arms of a baby can't write, and the mouth can't talk A lifetime of experience and dreams Left behind Left behind in the dark I cry endlessly, repeatedly for reasons I forget How do we deal with these emotions when there's nothing to direct? What's the point of a second chance, when all is left behind? Amnesia - a dive in the well, and I'll see what I might find I tried to hold on to just a picture of you Like a souvenir from the ship that sank But all in all it faded to naught A faint feeling remains But the mind turned blank