CONSUMED

Boarding the red-eye into the Evers yet again
where these paralytic dreams rise and fall
like the elegant waves of a looking glass field
lulling me toward that perfect intersection
where time and space intertwine

Even further I go
I was here, but I disappear
further, further...
Until I am everywhere
and nowhere

And I'm drifting in a sea of beguiling conceptions
underneath a pineal storm
I'm pretty sure I've been here many times before
where this parallel greeting me in the reflection
remains as familiar as the rising sun

Face to face, this enigma and I
collecting ternary allowances
while confined to weary contradictions
but always keeping within grasp
the elixir that keeps this journey sustained

Pushing and pulling, and so it goes
until each compressed sigh yields
consumed by the need to satiate infinite yearning
which has been swelling for time on end
and painting my psyche lucid with desire

But it's always the same
I open my eyes as the Evers sound their call
A smile I keep for myself. I know
the white walls mirroring the color of clouds
as they move over the sun

...written by Jenny Barson

LAMENT

infinitely imprinted

by some quintessence

in those of my tender years

ever evolving, thriving

it never ceased

unconditional exaltation

swells in my overwhelmed soul

filled with sanguine dreams

I abolish their might

but enduringly they reappear

oh this painful tragedy

I must steadfastly remain

reticent forevermore

...by Jenny Barson 

JADED (written in the days leading up to my divorce)

With fire alight in my amber eyes

I have become a woman jaded

Draining is this our bitter demise

Still fighting after hope has faded

This face so quietly masks the pain

but to look deep within one might learn

that these golden orbs all my anguish contain

and may surmise the freedom I yearn

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...Written by Jenny Barson