Powerless on rainy nights <br />thoughts plagued by <br />skipping records and <br />broken guitar strings <br />Mind haunted by the <br />lamenting croaks of the <br />lonesome bullfrog's ghost <br />dreams hijacked by spectral <br />hitchhiking faces; howling <br />roadside reflections of <br />highway insomnia. <br /> <br />Eyeballs strained out of tune <br />blitzed under the spell of the neon's <br />all night blinking spot light amphetamine <br />Mercurial messenger pigeon pecking at <br />the crumbled ruins of soggy saltines <br />sidewalks carnal convulsion <br />the city releases itself <br />in communal wet-dream <br />carnival allure captured in smoke <br />black vomit skyline <br />smog-grey coughing up <br />the nights altered blood <br />negatively charged impulses <br />fueled by the weekend's <br />reckless electricity <br /> <br />shedding ardent layers of the day <br />naked phosphorous flesh of the night <br />the machine unwinds under <br />the moon's drunken light <br />slow heavy constriction <br />green serpent air currents <br />brought in by the storm <br />summer's mouth hungry <br />humid and ajar <br /> <br />Purge and escape <br />libidinous engine <br />running full throttle <br />liquid lightning lubrication <br />human tension's come into close contact <br />continuously contracting and unwinding <br />deliriums delicious dance <br />the eventual fallout and <br />exhaustion's inevitable <br />self combustible collapse <br />what fantastical fastidious <br />drama replayed nightly <br />resurfacing through <br />fissures of lost time <br /> <br />year after year <br />purgatorial prisoner <br />of my own unknown <br />restless yearnings <br />the blasé day to day fate <br />not even the rich and recherche <br />have the power to payoff escape <br />the higher the stakes <br />the more indebted the slave <br />the deeper risk <br />the wider the grave <br /> <br />I let the morning tea <br />steep long <br />small sips <br />quiet solitude <br />cup after to cup <br />just to keep my mind <br />cherish the subtle beauty <br />The dried and fragrant petals <br />the chamomile's pure <br />flower child charity<br /><br />Gregory Allen Uhan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/powerless-on-rainy-nights/
