As On Arrakis, In My Mind

Abandonment mélange is just another name for Spice
When it is present, it is omnipresent
Touching every aspect of a life
Infecting it, addicting it, shifting all its precepts

Creating a dependence on its cinnamon-like dust
Now, is it sweet or is it bitter? Can you differentiate?
When it changes, too, the world’s trust
Making dune seas of the lushest place?

Desert planet, made of fear, no water to find anywhere
Scraping by on thimblefuls of life’s limiting need
A lifetime spent without the rain, just choking bone-dry air
All travelers be warned in time, all travelers take heed:

This spice will graft itself to you, rewire your very mind
It also opens you in ways no training ever could
Once infested in your brain, it can’t be left behind
But once you learn control you wouldn’t, even if you should

~Elena Nola

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Come Down Loneliness Like a Friend

You never used to come alone
Your ways all mingled up with theirs
A wild, wicked trio, bad boys one and all
Loneliness, Abandonment, Despair

You’d crash in unannounced
And leave my house in shambles
You’d take and take and take
Take and never give
You’d take my time and steal my peace
Destroy hard-built contentment
Palm my hope and thief my joy
And leave me colorless and crying

I have learned to lock my doors
Against the ones would hurt me
As I have learned to keep an eye
On what my visitors encroach
Perhaps, you, too, have grown and changed
Cut ties with dark companions
Learned to knock and learned to go
When the hour grows too late

So come down, loneliness, like a friend
Bring news of what I’m missing
Put an arm around my shoulder
While you tell me where you’ve been
Help me remember how to yearn
And long for something more
Give knowledge for the time you take
Change nothing but awareness
And kiss me gently on the cheek
When soft you take your leave
-Elena Nola

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