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Faith 1d
Buzzards leave the bones,
You swallowed me whole

Stuck in your craw
Sore throat, Laryngitis

Cough me up,
My pain stays

Scraping esophagus
To a ****** tonic

Taste your own medicine,
Choke on it.

Hoarse, you call
Stop, please, why

I’ve stuffed my ears with
A cotton candy lie

Sweet and fleeting
No substance

Hollow bones break easy
Like your  promise

Buzzards leave the bones,
You devoured my soul
Faith Mar 2020
On Sunday, I scoured
the skin from my
dining room table.

I smeared a sunset
to cover the scars

and in the fading light,
slanted by my living room
shades, it smiled at me
through a gap-toothed grin.
Faith Aug 2015
The system is flawed
Suicidal kids together
Make up our population

Too early to be awake
Minds are blank, eyes wander
Just a shitload of ***** teens
summer clings to me like the lingering warmth of a particularly good hug
Faith Mar 2020
To those who would cross me

given the smallest reason

I bid you, come forth

and bear my hellish season
Faith 1d
It is the thing of bones –
****** dry of marrow –
That breathes ice and whispers –

You’ve felt It near
The warmest hearth –
That chill which twines
Up the back and settles
About the neck – choking –
Writhes Its way between vertebrae –
Imbeds within the spine –

You’ve seen how It drags
Its engorged belly over
Threadbare carpets
To rest Its head on wet kindling
During frigid nights –
Props open Its mouth
With stale loaves of bread
And waits –

You’ve heard It gnaws
On the nubs of bleeding
Nails – amputates fingers
With ground-down teeth
Flat and yellow in Its maw –
Cauterizes the wounds
With frostbite –

It will visit you
On your last bed –
Seeping through too-thin sheets
And stealing a face
You don’t recognize –
You’ll think you heard it say:
My name is –

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