Walking forward but never leaving the corner i just turned
fluorescent lights for miles above me as my journey onward churned
stapled chairs and potted ferns
dustbins here and there

clean deserted hallways
-temporary everywhere

Office carpet or concrete floors
fire exits with extra doors
endless merry go round of more
The non threatening beige of yore
nicotine yellow was the shade it bore

The map of intricate building spaces
naked walls
no friendly faces
empty rooms I find deserted
totems of human life preserved it
Standing guard in vacant corners
mundane objects of weekly use
salute me on my way towards the

entrance

exit

nothing sluice


Searching for my long lost freedom
back through lobbies and waiting rooms
all I find that lies beneath them:
swindling stairwells toward my doom


Shadowless corners
bonjour tristesse
mountains of a storage mess
generators gentle humming
soundtrack of my dreary journey
elevator music straps me down onto a gurney

With no way out I come undone
to blend with medallion carpets
with echoing stones I merge as one
building blocks: the liminal pathway

Rain behind the windows blinds
Rain upon my shadow finds
I am no more than dust and grime
no deeper meaning there to find