Monday, 23 January 2017

Dance Their Ballyhoo



Trading off amassed anxiety will fail to be that 
litmus test you registered - or settle questions 
how your doubts of normalcy will still displace 
you from the space you thought your own - is 
it a ‘warning bell’ to ring to tell a random crew 
the ship has sailed: it seems to say insanity’s  
all but a step away - if - and when, you check 
for red or blue - find suspense your only hue 

But then its passage spreads, returns to where 
the bends unite in likeness of the morning light, 
you see a shadow of the day which means you 
stand within a frame you’d referenced as you; & 
if its true, you are accounted for - needn’t cross 
that ballroom floor to dance their ballyhoo 
© 8 November 2016, I. D. Carswell 

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