{"id":3514,"date":"2017-09-30T01:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T01:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2017-09-30T01:58:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T01:58:31","slug":"grand-illusion-maggie-pena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/grand-illusion-maggie-pena\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Illusion by Maggie Pena"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3515 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/OPENING.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"369\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/OPENING.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/OPENING-300x169.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 654px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 654\/369;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Grand Illusion<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Maggie Pena<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sitting alone in the corner of a room-<br \/>\ndarkness all around, but light above-<br \/>\nfrom somewhere it comes, that little bit,<br \/>\nfrom somewhere unseen, the light emits.<br \/>\nIt must, and so<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sitting alone in the corner of a dark room<br \/>\nwith the edges of the white walls pinching together over my head<br \/>\nlike a squinting eye<br \/>\nIt stares right down at me, pinning me to the floor<br \/>\nlike a worm,<br \/>\nsquashed by the tip-toe of a boot,<br \/>\nthat wriggles and convulses,<br \/>\npinned down to the floor by its own impatient guts.<\/p>\n<p>Where was I in such a hurry to?<br \/>\nI don\u2019t remember now.<br \/>\nI look up to the ceiling and wonder how<br \/>\nthe room does continue on.<\/p>\n<p>Is the further wall just as white?<br \/>\nWill some horrid converse come to light<br \/>\nwith the slowly creeping dawn?<br \/>\nCreeping like a little worm- all impatient guts and goo,<br \/>\ncrying, \u201cDon\u2019t let them see me!<br \/>\n\u201cDon\u2019t let them know!<br \/>\n\u201cDon\u2019t let them come!<br \/>\n\u201cThere footfall sounds in unalterable ranks!<br \/>\n\u201cI hear them, hear them,<br \/>\n\u201cnearly see them now,<br \/>\n\u201cand with the dawn, they come creeping and coyly entreating.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cSo will the chasm, too, come to yawn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In time, in time;<br \/>\nI am waiting<br \/>\nfor the dawn to come illuminating the further wall,<br \/>\nfor the boots to come as unalterable law.<br \/>\nIn time, in due time;<br \/>\nI am waiting.<\/p>\n<p>I stretch my arms over my head,<br \/>\nthe tired sound escaping from my mouth,<br \/>\nand falling out into the darkness of the room,<br \/>\nwhere the light is dead-<br \/>\nDead<br \/>\nDead<br \/>\nDead<br \/>\nand splattered out into the room like impatient, wormy guts<br \/>\nsquirming, squishing, anxious to presume,<br \/>\nto perceive<\/p>\n<p>The careful tip-toe boot,<br \/>\nThe careful tip-toeing of the unalterable sound,<br \/>\nthat rings against the further wall,<br \/>\nas all around<br \/>\nthe darkness closes in<br \/>\nlike an eye squinting on high,<br \/>\nlike the eye that squishes me down, closing the darkness down,<br \/>\nuntil the darkness is all,<br \/>\nis all around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Illusion by Maggie Pena I\u2019m sitting alone in the corner of a room- darkness all around, but light above- from somewhere it comes, that little bit, from somewhere unseen, the light emits. 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