Novel State of Mind

Lifted and moved
Train of thought shifted
Cerebral connections proved

The clouds are shades of consciousness
Passing through the sky

Birds on the wire let me know it is day
While strands of light peek through
Like ladders to a new plain up high

Slow my brain
Ease my soul
Listen to time creep by
As every second takes its deadly toll

The telephone pole's transistors spring to life
Reaching out to the world
Far past these confining panes of glass
Creating a future while also acquiring a past

I want to reach out into the world and grab it
I want to make it a part of me
But try as I may
It ever eludes
Nothing in these hands to see

If only this voice could be recognized
With the thoughts of my soul heard
I fret over these thoughts
Like an annoying itch
Hush, don't say a word

As night turns to day
And the illuminated day turns to night
So does my thinking and self-inflicted victims plight

The world is there for the taking
She is ripe and ready to be picked
Like a bullet into a Marines barrel
Or a needle into a tattered arm's vein

Establish the right state of feeling
Make life yours
Push through the pain