Un-peaced (version 1)

Last night I had no mind

Thought-freed I floated

silent

Oh, the silence

No dark-filled space of memories

echoing echoes

of screams

Puncturing

little rips

in my brain

 

No hate-laced words

Self-damning

Whispered  

to me in a voice

so like mine

 

No brain to speak

of muscles trembling

prepared forever

for freeze

or flight

 

No way to sense

the stabbing pump of damaged heart

or know the grating claw of

ghost fingers

on ribboned skin

A body without a mind

last night I drifted light

Unpieced

finally

I had peace

Without a mind Unchained from thought

The silence

Oh,

that silence

No brain spoke of blink of eye,

now heedless to sparkling water

And twin lungs

stilled unaware

no longer told of jasmine

 

No way for ears to describe

the many songs of wrens

nor feet the coolness of the grass

My body did not note the breeze

brushed across my skin

 

And no thoughts

nor memories

not one joy-filled dream was left

to drift me through the hum

of forests

Last night

finally

I was free of my agonised

mind

Yet

Unpieced

I had no peace