In a state of deep unconcsiousness…

From inside the looking glass

fervent, fresh delights

are blurred reflections passing,

forever barely out of sight.

Feeling love and laughter

Piercing through oblivion.

Intoxicating freedom

Still eludes new devotion.

In liberation, captured,

suspended in freeze-frame.

Mirror splinters, fractured

Echo pictures all the same.

Through fastened eyelids, sensing

this wonderland-like drama.

Incarcerated, locked within

an emotional coma.

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  • Collette Edwards on Aug 30, 2009

    very intreging piece LOVED IT!! :D

  • Katie Marie on Aug 30, 2009

    Had to go back and read this through a couple times keeping in mind the last line. Reminds me of Fegger’s writing. Excellent!

  • friendshipter on Aug 30, 2009

    wow..

  • Tlchimes on Aug 30, 2009

    Very sharp….

  • David Crerand on Aug 30, 2009

    Tragic, yet moving. You’ve captured the sense of entrapment that a coma must be. Great job!

  • BullwinkleMuse on Aug 31, 2009

    Love this, esp. the last two stanzas. Great imagery. I agree with Katie: Fegger’s influence is evident here, and that’s a very good thing to have. Excellent work!

  • Theresa Johnson on Sep 8, 2009

    wonderful piece cafftee. you have a way with words.

  • Duff D Moss on Sep 8, 2009

    Excellent. I think there are vary many of us walking around in various kinds of comas.

  • raptor22 on Sep 8, 2009

    Wonderful poem.

  • BradONeill on Sep 8, 2009

    I love your depiction of a crippling emotional state. It is nearly coma like I am glad you broke through the glass and let us all take a peek inside.

  • Used to be Shelly on Sep 8, 2009

    Wow, that was kind of sad. Good job.

  • Ronne on Sep 9, 2009

    great work,
    i loved the flow, i felt a loop in everything, i read a line, then i go back re-read it, then come down..
    esp this line,

    In liberation, captured,

    i loved the way you pulled this off, nice imagination.

  • oldster on Sep 9, 2009

    Great poem Cafftee. I’m sure your visage is much better than my own–especially first thing.
    Good evocative words.

  • Rod Ferrandino on Sep 9, 2009

    “emotional coma”; what a great way to describe it.

  • Brenda Nelson on Sep 9, 2009

    when I was a kid I use to spend lots of time wondering what comas were.. so bizarre, I remember a show about somebody in a coma and the world they lived in in their head. neat poem

  • Bill M. Tracer on Sep 10, 2009

    Seriously well done. It is interesting that we both wrote on the coma theme. I guess we’re on a similar wavelength. I like your kind of wonderland feel to it.

  • Adam Henry Sears on Sep 16, 2009

    This is unique, and has a linear structure, but, you need to work on your meter and hone in on some better rhymes. Thanks for sharing.

  • maranatha on Sep 23, 2009

    Really well written, I could feel myself there.

  • miraj on Dec 5, 2009

    loved the phrase “intoxicated freedom”.great write.

  • Nina Mason on Dec 5, 2010

    Nice flow of words.

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