Words Escape Me

One of the bittersweet things

About my poetry project

Is that you’re meant to get lost

In the words – like waking up

On a deserted island

That looks like every other one

& your only clue are the words

Surrounding you – so you become

Attached to the words that are only special

Because they happened to make your prison

Though you’re meant to leave purgatory

So you’re meant to forget where your were

& you lose access to those words

Only holding onto the ones that really matter

But coming from the perspective of the creator

All the words mean something special to me

Because I’ve been trapped with nothing

Except them – so forgetting them

Especially hurts – since I know

They’re there – yet not even I

The one who wrote them

Know if I’ll every see them again

Because of the way they were written

Accidentally or intentionally doesn’t matter

Though, that’s where the bittersweet feeling

For me comes in – because I miss my words

& hope our paths cross again – though

The fact that those odd words

Escape even me – means

It’s a proof of concept


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