When I Walk Into A Room

Published in "Poet Craze" 2010

When I walk into a room, 
always lines of faces looking at me. 
Rows of pathetic sheep bleating 
their rehearsed lines. 
Things you can't do. Things you can't say. 
These are the messages they 
collectively deliver. 
Flow around me, trying to wrap 
me in the collective sigh. 
Together we'd emerge, or so they demand, 
to blow away the shackles of freedom thoughts. 
We'll wear the same designs, eat 
the same religion. Be like submarine sandwiches 
all blended into one. 
When I walk, when I walk, 
When I walk into a room. 
The walls will be electrical, charged with 
restrictions of the thinking. 
Words will be chanted like old monks 
locked away in a cell. The same 
tattered and dried messages will 
be created out of thick air. 
I'll be properly tied into the dragging nylon 
stockings of complete and total despair. 
I'll be roasted and flamed 
over a flowing blood vein of compromise. 
That will become my statement. 
My version of the truth. 
When I walk, when I walk, 
When I walk into a room. 
Tripping over the vowels used to 
discredit me. Hiking down my pants 
so that I can be anally inserted with 
needles of forgetting and moving on. 
Holding pattern established and 
so the mindset of nothing becomes 
the absolute sum of all my heart. 
When I walk outside of the room, 
I must remember to lock the door 
as I silently crawl away.

Reviews

[Amila Jay]

Can relate this! The last two lines are outstanding! brilliant write:-)

[realmwriter]

Judgement, all the eyes cast at you and you can feel their penetrating gaze as it beats its way down your spine and explodes threw your mind like a hand grenade, sending the shrapnel of that judgment through your now bleeding soul. Excellent write Chris!

[Manpreet]

Amazing write!

[Michael West]

Your magic with words is simply spellbinding....this is an outstanding poem.

[Mary Chalmer]

this is pretty intense..nice

[blueseeker]

wonderful poem.
a poem i could read over and over

[Akshat♥]

I love the message in it:)
so full of emotions...
Awesome write!!!

[Penlady]

The only thing I get out of this work is that you've given up completely. Very low place in mind and heart. As you crawl away in silence after having locked the door on all the negativity you've expressed one can only hope that you feel lifted from the load that is now secured and you may go on somehow.

[Be Happy =]]

Wow.speechless .this is amazing I live the message. Great write.

[G. Marie"floating on an..]

This is an intense write. it's hard to be yourself when everyone expects you to be like them..... why do we have to all fit into a mold that we don't want..... that is what I got out of this...... I love the way the poem unfolded from start to end