Change the Channel (16)
Change the channel.
Stop watching this.
Stop watching to see how bad it gets.
Just change the channel.
Change the world.
Change yourself.
You’re the whole wide world.
Did you forget?
24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
Change the channel.
Stop watching this.
Stop watching to see how bad it gets.
Just change the channel.
Change the world.
Change yourself.
You’re the whole wide world.
Did you forget?
I felt it, a little while back–
That a part of me is hiding
Beneath everything that isn’t fun,
Like a child in a tent of blankets,
Smiling, laughing,
And wondering,
Will you find me?
There is a wilderness;
I wander it alone.
I can’t get you in;
The borders are sealed.
Enough is enough.
This is not poetry,
But the desperation
Of a reluctant air passenger.
I want to go home,
But where is that?
I would believe you
If you told me
That Terminal 2 at JFK Airport
Was in fact some strange purgatory
Between Earth and Hell.
My, but we are in the funhouse tonight!
This is controlled chaos.
This is no place for Homo sapiens.
Just when and how
Did we all agree to this?
Shhhh, you’re finding fault
With a perfect creation again.
Where is the blinding grief I thought
Would see me through the day?
It has been a horribly reliable fuel source.
Horribly reliable.
And on this day that I thought would be made easy
By flammable words and imagery,
Blinding grief is nowhere to be seen.
At your house in my mind,
I look around and see
Everything we left,
As though we are still there.
I am sorry for the leaving.
Every time, I am sorry.