Tag: Loss

Poetry · Writing

six, seven, eight

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battered ribs

shattered nose

rattling skull

the taste of blood melted plastic,

the only good thing

is the cool canvas brushing my right cheek like my mothers palm.

i want to stay here,

staring eyes like a night sky

all so, obstreperous

for frame of reference;

like the first round, no faces

no names just eyes, flashes,

hazy-

than a meteor crashed into my skull

twice

and

i

still see those stars

Poetry · Writing

re(turn) to an empty church

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they worry;

wonder where –

wonder where – they’ve gone

leader to the silent prayer

like a roach with poison.

they still love, you

carefully manufactured poison

with love, but you must

know

you’re an imagineer

carrier of this art, this message

this this this-

you carried everything, in place

not a scratch a dent

the burnt pages were dealt with care-

never questioning

never wondering

just- keeping.

you worried, they appreciated

they’re back – in silence

Poetry · Writing

silence of the lambs

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i don’t remember

what it was before

now;

chances are somethings were the same

just nothing that mattered.

i remember thinking

back then,

that i deserved what i got

if you didn’t work for it

like really work for it

than it wasn’t for you;

just not everyone gives equally

keeping you in the bottom of a well

to be mocked

to be trashed

to be reminded that they have you on a leash

and they control the slack.

i remember thinking

that those days

those days

were a peak.

they bury

you,

whether you’re out

sinking

or digging

that well isn’t for you