Dee Allen

Abandoned Time

No calendar on the wall
Time is abandoned
No clock on the wall
Time is abandoned
No watch on your wrist
Time is abandoned
No alarm clock exists
Time is abandoned
No cellphone in hand
Time is abandoned
No hourglass spilling sand
Time is abandoned
No more decades
Time is abandoned
No more years
Time is abandoned
No more months
Time is abandoned
No more weeks
Time is abandoned
No more days
Time is abandoned
No more hours
Time is abandoned
No more minutes
Time is abandoned
No more seconds
Time is abandoned
Sense of time escaped [ mind’s grasp ]
Time is abandoned
Sense of reality scraped [ clean ]
Time is abandoned
Weight of reality crushes you
Time is abandoned
While you’re locked down in the S.H.U.*

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W: 11.7.21

*Security Housing Unit. Also known as “close custody unit,”
“administrative segregation,” “solitary confinement,” or
“the hole.”

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