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Wrong place.....wrong time

It seemed the space between us became torn and

Profoundly distanced....................

 

Jamming bony knuckles and spread eagled fingers,

Lying their mapped out journey.....direction on point patrol....

Adorned by silver decoration, delighting in their skinned habitat

Shafted, deceit punching the recipient of the poison digits

Prodding and pushing their intent....dare you contradict

The intended carved out dose of punishment, Risk and

Safety......not yours and never would be; stooped

Down under the assailing bony palmed attachements

That delivered penetrating power, cupped around

Your arm til it became discoloured, pressure points

Backed you into a corner, up against the grain of the

Brick wall, cold and damp, the odour reaching

And scolding your nostrils with its stale internal vows

Refuse, stretching and protruding its foul remnents

An earlier life, when you were not under threat fades

Your very existance in jeopardy, your eyes pleaded for

Normality, willing someone to hear your silence, grip you

Tightly, not with malice, but with bravery and valour

Right now you need that shining knight, that white

Horse galloping down the blind alleyway, yet you

Know that won't happen for you're already sinking

To the floor, the blow comes sharp and stings, warmth

Exudes and trickles a path downwards, leaving your

Body, finding the cold concrete beneath you, travelling

Outwards................

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laura-susan-smith
English
Published
Sep 3, 2012
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