My poetry prompt for NaPoWriMo and Cheer Peppers is a mixed media painting that started as an idea but morphed into a memory. Some memories remind me of who I was and who I no longer am. Prints coming soon to Hastywords Art.

I close my eyes

To toilet paper

Littering concrete

I stand inside

A doorless stall

Like a tree

Without bark

I am cold

With too much

Shiny skin

It prickles

It crawls

The music

Is too loud

I can’t blink

I can’t speak

The music

Is too drunk

I can’t move

I can’t…

Glittered faces grow

Shrinking strangely

Next to me

I don’t think

They know I’m here

I find my feet

I float into mazes

Where am I?

I am not here

I close my eyes

To cold ceramic designs

Lying inside

Shapeless dark

Like a worm

Without bones

I am transparent

The black hole

The swallowing void

The music is too drunk

And I fold into its belly