Almost as if he had been made with sin itself, he grew still a bud on toxic liquid love. Loving the sweet lies
as the sun loved the moon. Demons themselves hide their nightmares in his reality, with the same canvas crescents
like his. His waist was sturd thick as war walls or a boulder’s heart.
His ears are the bridge and threshold of a tardigrade, his hands a dog strayed with anger in newborn cities.
The heart lifts, by another he floats living a sentimental life of the compressed truth
that has frozen and crackled. The casted leg pushes sideways to a safe cold corner.
Who will say ‘man’ to his boy like core? Who will say ‘smile’ to his twisted face?
And his plank knees, a board more similar as a newly painted fence the cause of the breaking marriage.
In a doll house, three old hearts and soft body out of a picture book, behind the curtains,
and now he hides old models in my memory. Using what little he borrowed, the setting of pieces back in their place,
plastered on the wall with sugar coated smiles and merigold lies: with the help of a finger too snagged itself
on his passing limbs with the actual weight of a lost boy, still trying to be found.
I used the format of a poem called The Grauballe Man. Of course it may seem similar to those who are familiar with that poem, but it is completely different. I based this character off of someone I hold dearly close for strength. More so, I'm living off of an illusion of strength so I wanted to show you how powerful illusions are.