An inkblot tarnish that bleeds through sheets
of work, an all-consuming blackness that eats
through my morale like acid through a petal,
that slow and steady browning tainting
the pure white of that spotless rose,
imperfect now, and damaged,
the bruise that seeps across capillaries
of hope until all thought of life is tender
and sore to touch,
false colours marking things that shouldn't be,
my failure marked in bold for me to see.
Apr 2, 2018
Apr 2, 2018 at 9:43 AM UTC
An inkblot tarnish that bleeds through sheets
of work, an all-consuming blackness that eats
through my morale like acid through a petal,
that slow and steady browning tainting
the pure white of that spotless rose,
imperfect now, and damaged,
the bruise that seeps across capillaries
of hope until all thought of life is tender
and sore to touch,
false colours marking things that shouldn't be,
my failure marked in bold for me to see.
Haven't written in a long time; revision for my exams has taken over and has left my state of mind in tatters. For those of you who followed my work, I was pull-free for a little while, however the stress of exams has made me start to pull again, which is what this poem addresses; a small failure - a bald patch - that grows, like a bruise.
