Imagine your self trapped inside an immobile body with eyes open that can see but can't move, blink or cry. Inside your head you hear your cries telling the world that you are inside the body, feeling the pain, the cold and the scalpel.
Just imagine...
Tell me about the opaque black mirrors
of exotic nights full of psychotics dreams,
when we want to wake up from lethargy
that chained us to the dungeon’s wall,
where silence howls like tortured souls
suffering seventy thousand deaths
without having been born just once.
Tell me yesterday, not tomorrow,
because today I am deaf reading
in the shadow of a burn out candle
while silence are shouting inside,
like a tortured prisoner tries
to escape the cruelest hands
that wants to stop his last breath.
Tell me only the truth, trough lies,
because I can’t be a believer no more
in a world full of complacent wardens
and cobblestones singing marches
under the boots of bellicose soldiers
praising the tyrant’s silver coins in the
witches hour of the innocent’s night.
Tell me, you betrayed your brother
because gold had a better color, and
not for the sake of a piece of bread,
he believed in you, as did you father,
and the womb that carried your blood
so after your birth you become a man
that make them to listen when you talk.
Tell me that your winter heart will pass
because we can’t live without a little hope,
that butterflies will be tomorrow
when the barren earth hit by the sun
gives us the desert warmth of the day
after a night of hands pressing hunger,
you was the one making the wrong choice.
Tell me every minute of your eternity,
because I will need to hear that my dead
was no something you expected tomorrow
when it was today not yesterday,
announced by the flapping wings, without
knowing its was also dead, of a hawk,
that feed itself from the carrion of your heart.
Tell me yesterday, don’t do it tomorrow,
because I will be not here today.
This is a powerful and at the same time ultimately disturbing...your poem: "Dementia" took me there. This is real and yes, you have indeed captured the sadness of the condition where there is no escape--reality is never the same.
This takes me back to "The Count of Monte cristo", where he communicates with an old, paralysed gentleman through eye blinks and pupil movements... good write (fright?) --Charlie
,,,words of dispair, mushroomed by todays world.. we do have today,, that is all we have,, we must live it,, making changes the best we can.
Awesome write...piercing words!
Hugs,
Christine
Only MOST TALENTED WRITER could write this sentences!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS POEM is one of BEST FROM THE BEST OF YOUR POEMS, GEORG MATEOS!!!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva
Reviewed by 000 000 (Reader)
Reviewed on October 29, 2008
Too powerful your words-I hope to never imagine this.
Oh yes when darkness falls and the Raven calls nevermore, .....
in this suit of armour tight enclosed to death a perfect host, no need to look inside, already it has died. My wife used to work in an old age home, she used to come home with nightmares. The deepest Georg! Blessings! Jasmin Horst
Your opening lines made me think of the novel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly". But your poem seemed more of an analogy of how even with all our senses working, we can still live our lives as if we are deaf, dumb and blind. Very powerful poem, Georg Mateos. Excellent work! ~ Sara
In my job right now, working for a senior center of sorts, I see some of the people there in just such a situation...and I had my best friends dad develop Alzheimers (sp?) just prior to his passing, it was pitiful watching a man that was my teacher in 7th grade, become nothing more than a vegetable in the end of what was an intelligent, productive life...Ed
Reviewed by Chantilly Lace (Reader)
Reviewed on October 28, 2008
Oh my..your words are so very touching dear man...wonderful writing...please have a great and safe day...Hugs
Oh what a heart touching powerful write George. My father-in-law is going through this and it is heartbreaking. Heart touching and heart breaking all at the same time. Well penned my brother, (I took your adoption serious) Love, Bonnie
Wow! That first stanza grabbed me and held me, as you built layer upon layer of tension throughout the entire poem. George, this is powerfully emotive! Very expressive -- both poem and photo. Thanks.
You have dug too deep to come up with some truth and I hope it will come out. Dementia is a disease that affects millions of people around the world, I guess.
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I like it.
In respect,
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Thought provoking poetry at its' best.
Stuart, (Australia)
Awesome write...piercing words!
Hugs,
Christine
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Be always safe,
Karen
Rebecca
Yesterday, Georg, you may have been separated from your Sandra. "I" stay open to all ALWAYS. You will be my friend forever :)!
Surgery over for this week, can't wait for the next one next week to be over.
Love,
Sandy
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
in this suit of armour tight enclosed to death a perfect host, no need to look inside, already it has died. My wife used to work in an old age home, she used to come home with nightmares. The deepest Georg! Blessings! Jasmin Horst
(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in America, Karen Lynn in Texas. :(