Took A Sequester

-Took A Sequester-
by Keaton Foster



A break
A nap
I won’t wake
Sleep in peace
Death if need be
Took a sequester
Laying out here
In this vacant field
All that I can see
All that I know
Is pale blue sky
Every once in a while
A few birds fly by
A reminder I’m alive
A way of God saying
You ain’t dead yet
I could lay here
Literally forever
And no one
Not a soul alive
Would come looking for me
The reality of that alone
Is a bone jarring truth
That continually
I must contend with
Sometimes I lay out here
For a dozen or more days
Just watching as day and night
Fight back and forth
Across the endless sky
Some days a single thought
Holds me prisoner
While other days
Nothing at all does the same
I recall the terror of my past
And I fight to reconcile
The current state of my future
A battle every possible demon
To the point when they are wounded
But certainly not killed
After every war is waged
After every battle has been fought
They come back stronger and stronger
While I only seem to get weaker
Took a sequester
Out here in this field
This vacant place of ideas
Reflection
And damnation
The pale blue sky
Endlessly stretches wide
I can see beyond this place
But to you I must admit
I cannot find any way
To see beyond myself
I will stay here for now
Until hunger and cold
Drives my bones
Only then will I go home
Back to the reality
Of all that I stand to lose
In an upcoming matter of time…




Took A Sequester
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.