Annoying voice
from within
disrupts sleep,

taunts me
to choose
between 

path well
traveled or
universe unexplored,

challenges me
to wander
into places

that ignite
spirit with more
haunting questions,

reshapes
dreams with
possibilities,

pushes forward
even as I
fight against it.

That force
that took me
from familiar, 

away
from roads
well traveled

into
a world of
unexplored

universes,
infinite
possibilities.

This
be my
heaven.

 

Janet Cormier is a painter, writes prose and poetry, and performs comedy. Janet prefers different and original over pretty. She loves collecting stuff, but cleaning not so much. Janet also talks to strangers. A lot. Her column appears weekly on Oddball Magazine.