Every note
Every word
Penetrating like a sword into
The wounds you leave
When you deceive
The injuries you inflict
Objectifying her
And her all too human needs
She cleaves to you with all she has left
Needing only tenderness to keep
Her roof from caving in
Never saying what you mean
Because her life is strung up
From the ceiling by thin
Knotted strings
Each thread to be
Tread carefully as not to shake
The limb upon which the nest rests
You don't seem to know her anymore
The muted throat you knew
Before has learned to counter
Whilst still hiding from
The uneven voice that
Spurns justified unbelief
Beyond the sum of inability
To combat or rather to retreat from
Bigoted obscenities which do not
Quite fly overhead instead
They are spat with no discretion
And blatant direction
From cavities in prejudiced faces
Into the ears of one whose self
Is bottled up in a medicine cabinet
Next to the antidepressant
Falling into disrepair
And sinking deeper into despair
Sep 22, 2015
Sep 22, 2015 at 6:02 PM UTC
Every note
Every word
Penetrating like a sword into
The wounds you leave
When you deceive
The injuries you inflict
Objectifying her
And her all too human needs
She cleaves to you with all she has left
Needing only tenderness to keep
Her roof from caving in
Never saying what you mean
Because her life is strung up
From the ceiling by thin
Knotted strings
Each thread to be
Tread carefully as not to shake
The limb upon which the nest rests
You don't seem to know her anymore
The muted throat you knew
Before has learned to counter
Whilst still hiding from
The uneven voice that
Spurns justified unbelief
Beyond the sum of inability
To combat or rather to retreat from
Bigoted obscenities which do not
Quite fly overhead instead
They are spat with no discretion
And blatant direction
From cavities in prejudiced faces
Into the ears of one whose self
Is bottled up in a medicine cabinet
Next to the antidepressant
Falling into disrepair
And sinking deeper into despair
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