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Joe 1d
The voice spoke with gentle whispers
"Hello young man"
"Who are you? Why do you speak to me?"
"You seemed unwell, and alone"
"I'm quite fine on my own, I like it well enough"
"No, it makes you sad, and you can't possibly like that, could you?"
"Why? Whats it to you?"
"I want what is best for you, you have to thrive. So tell me what is it that bothers you?
And why are you awake at this time? It is almost five in the morning!"
I pause, staring through the air, a decade of suffering and neglet swarming through my mind.
"Oh, I see..."
A quiet, solemn collapses washes through the voice.
Silence falls on us for a while before the voice chirps again, a fleetingly naive tone.
"Well, perhaps you could try improve things, surely you could make it better?"
"Yes, perhaps you are right, I could try"
Once again silence falls.
I long to hear the voice once more.
But it does not come.
And I never try.
Joe 1d
A lonely foal
struggling for composure
its coat still clinging dirt
wounds still healing from barbed wire
that once wrapped its frame.
Legs fold and buckle-
failing
at this first weight.
Its eyes are still misty with fear
still adjusting to the quiet darkness
stretching before its face.

A vast and impending field
now spreading beneath its hooves
Scars covering the terrain,
filthy, wet sludge,
unforgiving rough edges,
deceptive pits

The looming clouds
they watch silently
among the carpet of puddles
Leaving no fall unseen,
no failure forgotten.

Now this foal must walk.
Jun 10 · 12
Sickness of Myself
Joe Jun 10
A routine sickness,
it threatens to burn my throat
it churns and stirs my stomach
The sickness crawls through my flesh
still dragging a claw
through swirling acid
It seeps through my mind,
it bellows a screeching laugh
that pierces my feeble thoughts
bleeding ******* pain
burning splinters
break from my skull
split forth inside me
where they all remain,
hostile and sharp

Though I still live
and my heart beats regardless
Perhaps I could move
and find my peace
But my legs fail me again
and I curse in anguish,
the staining bleeding continues

As I lay on the floor
With my vain plans
and naive dismissal
of the ongoing dread
I find myself weeping,
I forget all my hope
I know the sickness has won
Jun 9 · 25
I can't see
Joe Jun 9
"...I can't see
I can't see..."

Each branch
catches me
as I fall
And as I
scrape past them
Their thorns
and sharp edges
dig into me
They rip
and tear
at my skin
then let me fall
As another branch
has its turn

The poison they hold,
within their berries,
it clings
so desperately
stinging flesh and bone

Though my every dread
All still remain
In the countless leaves
That block and crowd
my hazy vision

"...I can't see
I can't see..."

— The End —