…of my skin

Weightless
and shifting
in the shallows
of my skin
shadows circle
without
and within

elegantly veined
images
dance upon
my eyelids
whirling
like dervishes
in dissonant
slow motion
eyes wide shut
I can’t
un-see them

waves of pain
roll over me
drained
of everything
I am drenched
in the colours
of midnight
fragile and foggy
out of body

floating empty
above myself
drifting away
from
cloudy thoughts
into
the all-embracing
whispers
of darkness

still weightless
and shifting
in the shallows
of my skin
© Ann Bagnall