The Change That Comes

Nothing comes close to it-
There's joy, there's happiness,
there's even love, but this-
this is a loss of control,
when your body
replaces your mind,
and everything voluntary
becomes involuntary,
and when you lose it,
this religion,
the change that comes
leaves everything to the wind,
everything.

Jean Jones teaches English as a Second Language Basic Skills for Cape Fear Community College. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio and has a book of poems available on Amazon.com entitled Beyond Good and Evil. He has had poems published in Aphelion as well as Horror Zine online.

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