Get Lost
GET LOST
Get lost, you say
to an unwanted caller.
I dare you to
say it to me.
Exile me
to a place
where I'm drawn
out of self's cage
into ochre and rust,
spices, exhaust,
blaring horns, thrumming
strings, blazing
color so pure
tears rise
like dust
to my eyes.
There’s a world out there,
though I don’t understand it,
a world, and all
I want is to know it:
crumbling walls,
layered paint,
exuberant weeds
thrusting through asphalt,
despite all efforts
to keep them contained.
The challenge a gift
To find myself lost.