Decidedly Vertical
There once was a girl who slept upright,
Horizontal made her think of the grave.
Her friends thought her quirky,
Strangers found her ‘deep’
But all she ever wanted
Was a good night’s sleep.
She thought if she lay there
Non-vertical and still,
She’d feel too familiar
And stay there, until
Maybe one day a reason would appear,
A reason to get up
And do vertical things
In a vertical way
Like the ‘normal’, vertical folk.
But maybe one wouldn’t
And that’s what she feared,
That she would lie down
And find comfort
In a linen grave,
And fail to find a reason
To be vertical
Again.
Horizontal made her think of the grave.
Her friends thought her quirky,
Strangers found her ‘deep’
But all she ever wanted
Was a good night’s sleep.
She thought if she lay there
Non-vertical and still,
She’d feel too familiar
And stay there, until
Maybe one day a reason would appear,
A reason to get up
And do vertical things
In a vertical way
Like the ‘normal’, vertical folk.
But maybe one wouldn’t
And that’s what she feared,
That she would lie down
And find comfort
In a linen grave,
And fail to find a reason
To be vertical
Again.
Copyright © Amber Kemp 2018®
* No part of this poem may be used or reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any way or form or by any means electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise without the written permission of the author.*
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