When A Non-Player Character Awakens
Poem written and authored by T. Lee Thompson
Psychedelic ~ Paisley ~ Purple ~ Yellow ~ Swirls and curls
The spirals spinning ~ spinning all around and round
We get stuck ~ we get stuck ~ in the maze of our lives
Wanting to pound down the walls
But rather than an attempt to backtrack our steps, we pointlessly try again.
It never ends
It never ends
FUCK IT! Why does it never end?
And then, like a massive crash, you hit it, you hit the end
Yes, it’s the Fucking end alright!
And you don’t want to go ~
Because now you finally realize why you came here in the first place~
What the maze really means ~
And why did you walk into so many walls, seemingly purposely taking so many wrong falls?
Again, and again
It never ends
FUCK IT! Why does it never end?
Until again there is a crash, and like bricks tumbling to the ground
You awaken to someone pounding on your door
When you open the door, to your surprise, two people are yelling at you
‘Turn off your music! We are sick of that song you play all the time!’
What song, I say?
Quite suddenly you are aware and awoken by these strangers at your door.
A woman with a white rabbit tattoo on her shoulder
And a sleezy man standing too close to the woman in her inebriated condition
Then like being woken out of a dream, you are hearing the music playing repeatedly
It’s a small world after all ~ it’s a small world after all ~ it’s a small world…. the music goes.
Those high-pitched voices of the singers are like needles ringing in your ears.
You run towards the record player and grab the record from the turntable
And just like that, you throw the record onto the floor
It crashes into millions of tiny broken shards of plastic
And in an Instant like slow motion
The non-player has awoken
Fucking Right!
Tracy Lee Thompson enjoys living and working as a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Spiritual Blogger, and Tarot Reader in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Tracy’s primary goal as a hypnotherapist is to help people feel better by letting go of their past blocks and learning how to enjoy life. She’s a ‘humanist’ in her beliefs in life and looks for what is positively human in all of us.
