Awakened
To
Discover
The nightmare
Was being
Lived
From
Within
A collective
Dream
More illusion
Than reality
So then
Where was I?
Alive
In a
Transplanted family
In a land
Overrun
With
Transplanted people
Looked
For foundation
In the
Foundationless
The
Over-whelming
Substitute
Entitlement
Suckling
Upon
A teet
Void of
Sustenance
Numbing survival
Became
The carillon call
Death invited
It's cruelty
Never more
Apparent
Than
Dancing into proximity
Only to
Mockingly retreat
Sought
The solace
Of
Bone & blood
Felt
Generosity
of association
While still
The matrix
That unites
A clan
Simultaneously
Builds
A wall
Consulted
Wisdom & compassion
Of the land
Confiding
In the turf
While
Embracing
The stones
While
I
Quivered, quaked
Heaved & convulsed
&
Screamed
The land
Remained stalwart
And profoundly
Unmoved
Surely
I've stepped
One foot
Closer to belonging
Allowing
The purging
Of
Lifelong
Illusion
That
Has never belonged
R. O'Neill (November 30, 2018)
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