Thorns I snag on things; Like the wind blown bags In the crooked fingers Of winter trees Or wool on a cold sheep’s back Clutched at by hungry thorns Or seaweed dashed and left dangling By eddying currents Against diamond sharp cliffs. I try to flow smoothly in the river of people But catch my […]
Sanitize Rogue anguish is lost on the multiplicity Where sudden terror becomes the norm; Savage bloodshed drying layer after layer Until eyes are mere sockets, Desensitised constructions That sanitise minds and purify hearts With a faulty sense of justifiable acceptance, Manufactured lies we tell ourselves In order to toss and turn at night In hope […]
The Last Time Lying cuts the tongue, Taste – torched and twisted Hiding heat repels resolution Leaving lies leaves lament, The truth triumphs, I’ve taken too much time. And with time lent and spent I’ve riddled with discontent, Granted time is torment. Penalized for two centuries And forty-five decades, to compensate, For […]
Datenight We were in her strange apartment When she got the call. Her grandpa needed his medication and ice cream, So she took off, leaving me with the cat. The cat has two different eyes, One fair blue and bright, The other is like that of a surgeon. Evaluating, examining, investigating, I stared at the […]