Anxious dreams

[Delta40]

A crumbling old house
full of toothless children
raised by a slapper aunt
who died years ago

The family defecates
in a field of waste
'we have to', she chirps
'since the plumbing went'

I try to help
tactful as tact
but her pride is stronger
than the smell

She shifts my gaze
where bundles of babies
float in a pool
smiling upwards, gurgling

A ticking time bomb
sunk like a ruin
measures its explosive impact
upon innocent life


(I have exam anxiety!)

[Lumiere]

Sorry about your exam anxiety . . .
but no, not sorry - the result pleases me;
this poem takes me to a different layer of un-reality - the last two paragraphs in particular.
I like it very much, per always, Delta.
May your dreams continue to be abundant with such mind-turning snapshots as this.

[Hawkman]

Anxious dreams indeed! Positively horrific, but so expertly cameod. shockingly powerful.

Best, H

[Delta40]

lol. Thanks Lumiere and Hawk. I wonder where we would be without dreams...

[PrinceMyshkin]

Kind of like Dickens without the verbosity! Amazing and powerful.

Good luck with the exam.