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The Alternative
by Lyle Berry (Age: 61)
copyright 04-02-2003


Age Rating: 18 to 127

  The Alternative
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The Alternative

There is always that viable alternative.
Chaos ruling, I cannot cope any more.
The Reaper rides Fate’s Tsunami
and inundates my beleaguered brain -
waves pound in crescendo against my skull.

Worries are sharks that rend my soul;
emotions gobbets of tattered flesh.
I do not live now; I merely exist
in seething terror
of another day
just like this one.

I am strangling on the bitter kelp of reality.
I am drowning and wasted in the jagged reefs
of my fear’s black harbors.
I am sinking
for the third (and final) time.

Dear God! I don’t want to be here!
I have recklessly sloshed my blood
on the canvas of the irrevocable
and painted myself
into this inexorable
and horrible
seascape.

I have only the painter to blame
you know…
I cannot point a wet finger at God,
Life,
Fate,
or any other scapegoat.

The relentless ebb follows the flow,
and the alternative
(inescapable)
simply lies there,
cold and blue
in the trunk.
Waiting.




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05-13-2003 Gregory Christiano    

No one knows what life has in store for us. Fear the worst, the best is yet to come!
Greg
04-04-2003 Kay Lee Kelly    

A lot of your poems make me feel that way,
shaking, tossed, dropped a thousand feet.
I end the reading with a tear and a sigh,
then wishing there was more, tell me why?
There is not too many left that can write this way
You may be the reasaon that I can not go, so I stay.
Wild ride on this one old friend
04-02-2003 Pepper Basham    

Another excellent poem, Lyle and sounding very much like the middle of despair or a panic attack. Powerful descriptives.
04-02-2003 Janet Owenby    

Another great one Lyle
04-02-2003 Nancy Pawley    

Lyle, this grabs the reader in its intensity..fact is I've been in this place you've described so well.
Nancy
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