Poetry
- 2001
empty
without an invaders presence,
Waiting, waiting, waiting, set like an inevitable trap
Finally
The invasion of space, a push through the thin invisible lines of privacy,
The barriers of persona
like waves on the stillest of seas, a breeze in a still forest, a pungent smell
in the airs, the sock of a touch in the darkness,
an activator, a switch, a trigger, reaction
But
the intervention the presence is monitored,
viewed, recorded displayed, assimilated into the whole context
It
creates an enigma, a impasse,
once the viewer steps forward to leave there is a history of the space as part
of them, and them as part of the space,
vacated
the space sits
empty without an invaders presence,
Waiting, waiting, waiting, set like an inevitable trap
Who
is caught and who caught them
Down stairway
Peering
Watching through the uncertainty of falling snow
Shadow eyes flicker in the white out of a chill down
Watching, viewing the stare looks backwards surrounded
© Lloyd Godman