Dyspnea
noun difficult or laboured breathing.
The sordid world seeps in
steeped in its heavy humid ways
through a circle, cut in glass
so there is no window, closed or open.
An hourglass, descending
through the turgid day,
the sand pouring down, down,
down into what? Something.
Thick and desperate smog
leaves sickly yellow layers
on languid and discarded thoughts
that lost their innocence long ago.
With smokers’ lungs and stinging eyes
I lift my hand -
still alive -
and let my body linger where it lies.
The sordid world seeps in
steeped in its heavy humid ways
through a circle, cut in glass
so there is no window, closed or open.
An hourglass, descending
through the turgid day,
the sand pouring down, down,
down into what? Something.
Thick and desperate smog
leaves sickly yellow layers
on languid and discarded thoughts
that lost their innocence long ago.
With smokers’ lungs and stinging eyes
I lift my hand -
still alive -
and let my body linger where it lies.