Monday 4 June 2007

Put Me To Sleep, Mother...

In the space, she lay at the heart
Sinister loneliness moving like a dart
Acrid walls looking down upon her
Her life, she recalled, seemed a blur.

And now again she called out
Accosted by another dizzy bout

“Put me to sleep, mother,
In your lap
Drug me into oblivion, mother,
From all that crap
Release me, mother,
From that addictive trap

I was breathing my freedom and my flight
And you think mine’s a sorry plight?
How do you say that I lost myself to this rapture?
That my life’s in smoke-tentacled capture?”


But nowhere was mother to be found
In helpless agony, her head she did pound
Nothing could she do at the eleventh hour
Deserted her trapped daughter in her ivory tower

Muffled yet loud
The sobs reverberated in the room
Soft as the cloud
Her pillow solaced her gloom.

Her hymn floated and hung in the air
A dying song, audible and bare
“The world could be pink
What do you think?
Or is it blue?
Could be any other hue!
I see you through the purple haze
The needle pricks and my eyes glaze…”

Her pupils hoped for a purple haze
Her tower engulfed by a golden blaze
Life dropped, thudding to the ground
Silence killed all other sound.

“…Put me to sleep, mother,
In your lap
Put me to sleep, mother,
In your lap…”

Music: "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd!

Edit: Sigh... Does this seem so abstract? The poor junkie, the dying druggie (to put it crudely) is not noticed...!

13 comments:

--Sunrise-- said...

:(

Keshi said...

finnaly Im here :) Lovely new space girl.

Mother's lap is the best place on Earth.

Keshi.

Balu said...

Nice one Trinie
If u can remember iam the one posted som comments for ur blogs in "quest for depth"....
All of a sudden when i tried to access ur blog..it was sayin that u r not authourised to watch it...Quiet embarassed!!!
Cud u pls allow me to watch ur blogs...if u don hav ny probs?...
U might be wondering how i got the address of this blog...
Actually i saw ur comment in Locutions blog....I regularly visit that blog n its has been the inspiration for me to start my bloggin stuff...
Nyways...hav a nice time trinie...:-)

Rani said...

aww.. its a sad poem. i dont knwo what id do with my mom's comfort..

Ethan said...

nice poem... dont know many females who appreciate pink floyd, but happy to know you do..

nice new blog..!!

Kay Vee said...

sunrise: :'(

keshi: :) welcome!
i second ur words.

balu: yeah, i was kinda taken aback seeing u here! naah, its ok. ur welcome here! :D
thanks!

choco: yup, sad it is. dunno if i'm good at any other mood wen it comes to penning poems!

Ethan: thanks! yeah, I've noticed too that men trip on Pink Floyd more! glad to know you've posted again...

Harsh said...

"Trapping towers and burning blazes,
druggie daze and harrowing hazes.
Pithy plights and freedom flights
of a dying daughter's sorry sight.

Hopeful hues for a hopeless heart,
Nasty needles and deadly darts.
Wonderful words and pictures prime,
Lovely lyrics make a rocking rhyme."

My compliments.

elfstone said...

Trinnie :)

Wow ... now you have gotten into the psyche of a drug addict .. you are simply amazing!

Trinnie said...

harsh: :D
great alliteration!

elfie: ;-D

thanks, both of u! :)

dharmabum said...

hey trinnie, i like that one. i really ,really like that one. but tell me, was it a 'substancial' effect? ;)

oh, and i like floyd too :)

Trinnie said...

dharma: no man! i wish it was. I've heard druggies write really well under the influence! wish i cud try some stuff! :P

thanks! :)

dharmabum said...

don't know abt druggies writing under influence and all that, trinnie. i think one has to have it innately, and then maybe the influence could help, in some way.

personally, i'm a lil scared of all the chemical stuff. a lil weed is alright with me, anyday. its completely natural u see :D
and the effect is good inuf, methinks ;)

dharmabum said...

btw, can i link this blog? so much easier for me to read all my regular blog pals that way :)