Bed Ridden

Are you there now

In that lonely place

Surrounded by coddled solitude

Or do you still search
Seeking an escape
Another path to learning

Were that I was there
Simply to secure
To aid and abet

Would that I could banish
The giant teddy
The remnants of sleeping marsupials
To the darkest corners of your room

Can you feel my arms around you

Do you feel my warmth
The unspoken feelings

I wonder

Do you

Or do you fight against it

This sense of unity
This sense of us

I wanted to fight it
Yielding to its strength in the end

Would you

Could you

Or do my arms no longer warm you

Do my words scatter

As nothing but the ashes
Of a once beautiful mind

© 2009, Mosquitobyte