Tramadol Dreams

After-images glare 

Red orange outlines flare 

Strange hallucinations rare 

Floating off to everywhere 

Nothing what it seems 

In hazy tramadol dreams

Spaced out in yellow sky 

Earth breathes a peaceful sigh 

Pain flees like a butterfly 

Live forever, never die 

Riding on a laser beam 

In vivid tramadol dreams

Steve Wheeler © 15 January, 2022

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All the wrong places

Bright lights 

dark spaces 

crowded dance floor 

a chaos of faces

looking for love

looking for hope

looking for peace

in all the wrong places

Emptied wallet

emptied glasses

emptied heart

as the night time passes

looking for me

looking for you

looking for us

in all the wrong places

Play the clubs

play the aces

play the hearts

as your soul erases

looking for ways

looking for truth

looking for life

in all the wrong places 

Steve Wheeler © 19 June 2021

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Neon dreams

neon dreams 

not what it seems 

inside a night shelter 

lines of snow 

dropping low 

on the helter skelter

run about 

down and out 

life beyond the rainbow 

know your name 

feel the shame 

dance on a volcano

neon lights 

high as kites 

giggling in the rain 

doorman stare 

you don’t care 

laugh at his disdain

ten past three 

bad company 

run from the Old Bill 

all alone 

lost smartphone 

crawling up that hill

moving on 

once upon 

another form to fill 

hope is gone 

can't go on 

every pill and thrill 

late at night 

broken light 

listening to the screams 

mentally broke 

ain’t no joke 

shattered neon dreams 

Steve Wheeler © 31 May, 2021 

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