I watch each delicate thread
Pull away
(Frail twine,
The string of life,
Warn from wash and
Off white)
The plink of one more
Surrender as
One by one
Their little hands
Let go under the pressure
(Too taxing;
Cracked glass
Invasive fissures
Wiggling their way
Downward until
Wrath forces its way
To the surface)
And prepare to lose
(Control
Tumbling upward in a
Bittersweet cone of
Fermented
Nineteenseventyeight
Exquisite wine
Ready to shoot
Straight to the brain
Unraveling the ties,
Letting the pieces fall)
Myself in fragments
Scattered upon the floor
Of who I really am
(or who I never knew
But learned to grow
Apart from.
Caged in my fear
Savagely
Awaiting freedom
So prohibited
;Slavery)
Until I shed my shell
(the painted
Actionfiguretell
Of the mold
I came from.
An assembly line model
Struck in posses
Clothed in garments of
Rejected leisure)
And feel my truenity
(the gentle nature
Peel out
And bloom
Like the dark rose
I’ve seen time and time again
Amidst a lot of pebbles
Waiting so eagerly
To be picked by
The one naïve
Green soul
To let the eye fall
In color
And lick the blood of christ
So tainted
With illusion)
***** the finger
Let the blood run out
Bleed me out
( ailments birthed
of a gentle betrayal
disease my being.
embalmed of any
logic for sense
the salvation of patience is
left by the wayside;
a token for those who
stop to think )
My sanity ridded
Corpse
A poor excuse
For my former self
(falling)