Situation Intolerable - a Poem for dverse Poetics

René Magritte, Homesickness (1940), oil on canvas

  

        What I see in the photo 

Home seems different, seems so very warm 

Back to where I left off this very bridge 

Had no wings back then plunged into the cold 

Team with wings dressed in white that pulled me out 

I was issued suit like that, white with wings 

Notices on my back saying, "stay pending" 

Pending interview with the famous saint 

Backlog was ahead of me but I could wait 

I had persisted going back, visit 

Visit with kin left behind and explain 

Tell of my ills, worries, evil thoughts why 

I could bear no more had to make the jump 

Now thinking why and what, why I would leave 

Leave a mess behind that I couldn't cope 

So I was released, on leave of absence 

Gave me the lion to ride him back home 

Didn't tell me before but when we left 

Out the golden door my suit turned to black 

Wings I'd never used they said take with me 

But don't to use those wings as they're evil now  

And we came but the kin understood not 

Why I'd leave like that, messes left for them 

Here we stand on that bridge ready to leave 

Wanting to test these wings, I'd like to fly 

Lion senses bad, he needs to mount up 

With one giant leap and we could be gone 

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