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Be who you are and say how you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
--Dr. Seuss

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Boxed Inn-Poem revisited by Maureen Ucles from Just Write Baby

I wrote this last January when I was feeling a little boxed in about some things going on in my life.  Wow!  What a difference a year makes.  I am free now baby!  Free!  It is always nice to look back and move on.

Boxed Inn

By Maureen Ucles


You've got me
Boxed In
Cornered in all directions
This place
Reeks of moldy cardboard
Peanuts and puffy plastic pillows
or was that your ego?
Inflating my brain
Contusion
Utter
Confusion
So
Concussed
Withering to rust
Oxidation in
this stinking, stifling, stagnant
Boxed INN

Where do  I reside?
In your embrace?
No more like
a chide
slap across my face
'cause I can't find
anything
in this dastardly, dilapidated
place
incarcerated --
cruel and unusual
torture

Feels like
 I am banished
ostracized
tainted
with my original sin
like
Adam and Eve
out of paradise
descending
into depths of darkness
abyss to abysmal
Get me outta of this
horrible, hellacious, horrendous
Boxed Inn

 Hotel California
Checking in
No out in sight
wanna
Tear down these wailing walls
crumbling
piece by piece
inch by inch


imploding,
exploding
onto me...

 I  now
reach beyond reach
try to
capture
a glimpse
a spark
light eternal
the heavens
I
gravitate
 encapsulate
the tangible
surreal
peace...peace
permeates
infiltrates
my being

without you--
outside this cruel confinement
into solemn serenity

Boxed in
No more

2 comments:

  1. Boxed in no more! I can totally relate to this poem. I believe we often get in our way of freeing ourselves from of our own narrow thinking. Your words can break the chains from our mental slavery. It is as simple as acknowledging, reflecting, and acting on our thoughts. We can climb out of the box anytime we are willing to do those three processes.
    You shared:
    I now
    reach beyond reach
    try to
    capture
    a glimpse
    a spark
    light eternal
    the heavens
    I
    gravitate
    encapsulate
    the tangible
    surreal
    peace...peace
    permeates
    infiltrates
    my being

    I love how you gave clear instructions on what coming out of box (no pun intended) feels and looks like.

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  2. Wow! Thanks for the feedback! Please feel free to offer more feedback! You have no idea what it means to bloggers to get such positive feedback, really any feedback. You made my day!

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