Inside Another's Eyes

This poem went in a much more macabre direction than I started out at. Inspired by "Today I'll Sit Still" by Ernesto Trejo. Many thanks to Thalia for bringing the poem to my attention. I hope you enjoy.

Inside Another’s Eyes

Trapped inside another person’s echo

Remembering memories I have never known

With unfamiliar faces

Haunting unfamiliar places

And the strangest of those faces is my own

I want to scale the cavern of my skull

And take my heartbeat softly by surprise

And be the sky inside my mortal eyes

And be the sky inside my mortal eyes

I try to swim the river of my blood

Or whatever liquor courses through these veins

With those ever fizzing bubbles

That embodies all my troubles

Til they burst inside another person’s brain

I want to blow away the dust that settles on my heart

That spluttering chokes it to one last demise

And be the sky inside my tear pricked eyes

And be the sky inside my tear pricked eyes

I want to grow inside myself

 Be impossible to contain

Yet I am restrained

For someone else is me

Someone who doesn’t know how to be

And both of us are unhappy

I want to nagivate the maze of my ribs

Picked clean by scuttling ants and buzzing flies

And be the sky inside my former eyes

And be the sky inside my former eyes