�Heart Shaped Pill�

We are all trying to survive our days and nights
You can move from one side of the country to the other
But you still have to live with yourself every day
Is the fear and uncertainty too much to bear
What’s happening with your brain?

Are you watching for a life, are you concentrating
Or are you following the sleep as it floats by your pupil
Are you in a trance, transfixed by the moment in your eye?
Is this all just too much for you?
Are you locked inside your mind?

And when you look up at the grey skies above
Do you see the sunshine that will follow sometime soon
Or do you feel the force of the approaching thunder storm
Do you see hope or do you see dread?
What goes on in your head?

If the gloomy times override the optimistic lines
Remember that I am help at hand
I am easy to take- once a day
I can keep you breathing
Keep the heart beating
I am your heart shaped pill…so please take me.

 

Author's Note

First poem written in my new home in London...

Reviews

[Marlton]

I love the second stanza, moving in from observing something outside, to the passage of sleep across your eye to the fixed thoughts in one's head: literary zoom in! Good stuff.