Waiting in vain, my blue blood in my narrowing veins, waiting to pump blood red and rich, excelling in this machine once again.

This machine is suspended, disbanded until further notice..

Summer is nigh, sun rising high and bustling about the busybody clouds.

There is a heart kept in a glass box nearby. It’s waiting for permission.

This boxed heart is waiting for permission to bloom and beat. This heart yearns to enable a body much like yours or mine, to sprint to create and live.

This machine is suspended until further notice and the heart trapped in the glass box is stiffening with the frost.

Disbanded until further notice.

We must coexist to exist at all.

About the poem: I was walking with friends on a local trail and found this creepy doll arm with a little sprout growing inside of it. I wrote this poem before finding this arm and had no clue what photo to use. This photo once taken, was a no brainer 🙂

7 responses to “Disbanded Until Further Notice”

  1. Woodsy Avatar
    Woodsy

    Something about this piece so deeply fits what I feel right now.
    I feel vey much like a thing on hold…
    waiting for permission for something…
    hopefully permission to live,
    whatever living looks like,
    outside that glass cage
    where I’ve been weaving some quiet, intimate vision of what it is I am missing.
    Some say it’s all about lockdown.
    Maybe it is.

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    1. BrittnyLee Avatar
      BrittnyLee

      I definitely felt this way during the lockdown too . That’s actually when I wrote this. I post dated it. It’s hard to deal with life when it’s so interrupted. I hope that lockdown lets up in your area . We just went into green phase a few weeks ago. Restaurants are still not fully open yet and banks are not open yet but will be soon. Lockdown as you know was tough for me too. You got me through a lot of it. 🙂 so thank you as always for being you. You will get through this. Thankfully this will end at some point. This is a beautiful comment.

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      1. Woodsy Avatar
        Woodsy

        You pulled me through too.

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      2. BrittnyLee Avatar
        BrittnyLee

        🙂

        Like

  2. Woodsy Avatar
    Woodsy

    Maybe it’s a world in need of that soft-hearted poet whose words take one step further…

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    1. BrittnyLee Avatar
      BrittnyLee

      You my friend ! Thank you so much 🙂

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      1. Woodsy Avatar
        Woodsy

        What you can do with just a word…

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