your marriage a wreck

you seek to escape at last

flee to the true world

 

don’t open the door

think of this as a warning

from someone who lived this life

please take me seriously

 

or do not listen

see for yourself what’s waiting

turn the knob and push

the storm engulfing you here

is the storm waiting outside

 

(after the untitled and undated painting of a muralled room by Juan Brufal)