Divinity Garlanding my head with liquid smoke, My mind is screaming. I looked through plastic latticework I searched in the space between my covers and my body Still not finding. I glanced through glass windows, the rhythm of the road drumming into my brain Scenery flashed by, but there was really nothing. I stared into the blackness of my morning coffee, attempting to see the future, but none came forth. I searched the night sky for patterns in the stars, but only saw those documented by science Nothing real. Nothing true. Nothing that grabbed at my mind and transported me. I looked into the light of the sun and was only blinded. I looked into the reflected light from the moon and was only soothed, saw only craters. I called to the winds. No words were whispered. I climbed the trees and looked out over the world, but it was the same… Buildings, greenery, endless sky. I talked to beings. Fallible, they told me what I wanted to hear. Garlanding my head with perfect sound, I screamed in my mind, And something is answering. ©1998 - Nicole Toivonen.