Poem-“Borderline” please scroll down if it doesn’t appear at top of page.

“Borderline” Suffocating But fighting for survival. I’ve been walking on the borderline For a long time. Used to the mediated light Forgetting that the sun Is still intact. Break me! Take me beyond, Take me through. Show me that I’m still alive, here, and real. I’ll get down on my hands and knees. Destroy me. Your pain is healing. I forgot who I was In solitary confinement. From my tomb it takes war to free me sometimes, Violent rescue. At the borderline You take and hold me there, on the edge. It’s a razor wire, you know. Turn one way, it’s dangerous. You might go over the line. I have been waiting here Bound and shackled. A prisoner Studying the bars on the walls But I never give up On living again.