everyone is looking for underworlds
all over the earth but when it lands
on them they are not so happy
death is the key character there
and he is generally not a nice fellow
controlling and the heat is too high
or so cold your toes and fingers freeze
but death comes in female form too
usually cloaked for death is hidden
some underworlds come with return
tickets Orpheus had one of these
but blew it as did Job some of us
have multiple city round trips
but we never know the departure
or return dates so have to live
as if today will be our very last
drugs allow day trips to the underworld
like looking for a house to buy or rent
every location is filled with fantasy
and it all looks so much brighter
than the everyday mundane world
underworlds are with are all the time
we fail to notice their intersecting
presences until our number is up
all over the earth but when it lands
on them they are not so happy
death is the key character there
and he is generally not a nice fellow
controlling and the heat is too high
or so cold your toes and fingers freeze
but death comes in female form too
usually cloaked for death is hidden
some underworlds come with return
tickets Orpheus had one of these
but blew it as did Job some of us
have multiple city round trips
but we never know the departure
or return dates so have to live
as if today will be our very last
drugs allow day trips to the underworld
like looking for a house to buy or rent
every location is filled with fantasy
and it all looks so much brighter
than the everyday mundane world
underworlds are with are all the time
we fail to notice their intersecting
presences until our number is up
That is so sweet, Sue. I love it. Having spent a lot of time in the underworld (My machine wrote underword), I well remember looking up at the pedestrian life. A weird glass separated us creatures. Sometimes I still feel like a ghost in a pedestrian world. (I am not so sure that it is only feeling Death.) I have written elsewhere that poets will have a foot in both worlds. It is true enough. Usually pretty good dancers too.
ReplyDeleteyes, and the first stanza landed on me. I know the feeling. You've nailed it!
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