Isolated

An island sits high
Rocky edifice forbids
Water no solace

Until

I need a break
Weight just dragging
Me down, spiraling
All the mountains
Granite sitting densely
On my shoulders
Atoms colliding
Tight and heavy
I've been trying
To push up and
Divide the load
But it's all mine
Mine to bear
Mine to keep
Myself moving
Until
I get a break

The Rain

Palpable, the intensity of new anxiety
A monsoon rain inundating everything
Drenching through clothes and skin
Leaving me to huddle and search
Struggling to find warmth and comfort
Racing to know the future of this
This decision and what it could bring
Is it another mistake, extending the list
Or am I once again running towards
The life I deserve and am working for
As the saying goes, only time will tell

Ghost

Can a ghost decide to float away to another place?
To vanish into wisps of nothing, unworthy of where
It has been haunting and no longer sustained
Or is it forever tethered to those other souls until
They become aware and release it or embrace it
Trying desperately but in vain to influence them
Make them aware of its existence, breath of cold air
A chair scraping along the hardwood floor
With all the anxiety of nails on a chalkboard
All ignored and chalked up to imagination
To the wandering mind of boredom and loneliness

Hauberk

I don't dare remove
Even a single piece
Of this armor thick
Girded about myself
Created to protect
To close off as much
Of me as possible
Steel plate and mail
Linked and overlapping
All inside my mind
But as real as if
Built by a smith