#branded
echoes crashing through time.
lies, where breath once lived.
your voice like butter,
your words dripping honey
as if i could be bought.
deaf, as thunder rages
when honesty speaks.
a match strikes,
white hot against my skin.
you brand me yours.
no anchor, no home,
no hope.
you play your game,
blind to the price.
i stammer words unheard.
they bleed your name.
i live,
begging for more time.
Apr 14
Apr 14, 2026 at 3:30 AM UTC
~for those who can’t sleep, and know why~
***you say “how much is too far?” and I think yes, more scars,
a man surveys a lifetime of errors and cowardice,
my soles, scarred from nite-walking new york city sidewalks,
days of haven’t slept in years, weakness is my prejudice,
tally sums-ups as no forgiveness, the pavement paying is a
continuum of paying on, there is no atonement for wasted life,
the concrete cracks wedded to my body, stepped on each one***
**marvel at the disastrous disappointment that I’ve engineered,
how creative in disguising a life of accumulated self bruising,
applaud my season’s greeting card, 2020, me meeting me,
in a laptop I am contained, global boundaries thus defined,
crumpled coffee cups, emptied wine glass, zoom loops of repetition,
still I wonder why, every day, how, so many missteps, wondering
not at the lackluster will that carried me; every minute sorrowful**
*so much hidden begs for revelation, murdered souls, theft, jealousy,
but the punishment is brutal; a conscientious conscience continually
punishes my blackened hours and there is no retrieval, retrial,
just a grounded plot with neither headstone and grass,
for I’m marked by no marker, and the wounds inflicted are my
afflicted leavings, my bones+soul confined, and the hallelujah
word excised from my vocabulary, forbidden me, justifiably so*
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Mr. Tambourine Man
Song by Bob Dylan
“Though I know that evening's empire has returned into sand
Vanished from my hand
Left me blindly here to stand, but still not sleeping
My weariness amazes me,
I'm branded on my feet
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming...
And take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time
Far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees
Out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky
With one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate
Driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow”
Dec 5, 2020
Dec 5, 2020 at 4:33 AM UTC
your kiss
burnt my lips
bruised my limbs
set me on fire
your look
shook my core
tore me apart
ignited my desire
i leave
my memory branded
stranded without you
waiting by the shore
Mar 9, 2020
Mar 9, 2020 at 6:50 PM UTC
His name branded
On my mind
and heart
Even 6,022
miles apart
Forever a smile
On my face
Forever a laugh
In silence’s wake
May 6, 2019
May 6, 2019 at 11:12 AM UTC
The sun plummets into pools
Of fleshy humanity.
The pollution sinks
Into the streets of the city.
The flames,
Lapping at the skin
Melting off of
My hollow structure.
But still, I will stand tall.
The memory of you
Still branded on the insides
Of my eyelids.
Mar 28, 2019
Mar 28, 2019 at 7:46 PM UTC
Defenseless as the bull lays with his limbs wound tight with twined rope, watching as the hot iron lay upon his coat and melt it's way to his flesh. All he can do is Bellow at the agonizing pain for he is unable to stop it. Flowing rapid through his vanes the pain , like the rivers rushing down the stream.
The torture still steaming as the damage is done ,he wears the memory of that pain daily to remind of a feeling of helplessness dismissing his dignity replacing it with his submission as he is forever branded . I live this feeling everyday as I wake to the torture of my limbs twined with invisible rope, the only difference is the burning flesh is inside piercing my heart as I lay helpless knowing I can't save you from your pain. The worry rips through me ****** and kidnapping my sanity as the thought of the unknown is more than I can bare. Although my scars are internal , the naked eye can't see , the hurt and fear I feel for you, brands me every day
Mar 25, 2018
Mar 25, 2018 at 8:32 PM UTC
Wyatt freaks
come on baby talk to me
just like the others
give your oppinion
then block me
read around
what we
write
then pretend
you will be
all right
one two three
none
of
you
know me
take my footsteps
with grains
of
salt
pucker your mouth
watch me stomp
report my manners
after you block me
your form
of
religion
must have
swung
from
trees
we
are just in an shell
of
flesh
your stupid
letters are just an test
just because
you block me
don't mean
it isn't me
every writer you read
test me
not
that
no no no
why et y
why
et
y
we 91st good thing for my soul
block my whole
report me
hey me
banned
that
Will
never
change who I am
stupid
Wy at t
hey at at t
keep testing me
?
...
..
.
Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 6:52 AM UTC
I was barely even,
From Northern India,my mum's little one,
A child bride,
My husband's family rules I had to abide.
Godnas (tattoos) were mandatory for married women,
So several days after the wedding
done,
An elderly lady came to brand me alone,
Her tool, a needle,she would heat with fire,
Burn my skin and fill with colour pigment on and on she would not tire,
No anaesthetic to numb the pain,
No cream to heal the skin.
I had several tattoos,
Subjugated without any ados.
Now, my daughter is a different version,
She is a rebellion,
Refused to have the tattoos done,
I supported her and she won.
Oct 4, 2017
Oct 4, 2017 at 2:52 PM UTC
you branded me
angry red marks soiling soft skin
my body now a cage to the wild soul within
and like a stallion, i love you more when i'm broken
Jul 3, 2017
Jul 3, 2017 at 8:00 PM UTC
pain unfurls in my chest
a reminder of loss
that will
never
go
away
even when forgotten
forever branded into my mind
eternally scarred into my heart
Jun 12, 2017
Jun 12, 2017 at 6:37 AM UTC
Running away
An eternal struggle
Fighting against suppressed feelings
Feeling displaced
Located in a world of my own
A world so strange...
I don't belong here...
I'm just a misfit
Branded by society
Trapped by my own peculiarity
Jun 14, 2016
Jun 14, 2016 at 4:26 PM UTC
I didn't ask to be pulled into this world
Ripped out of the quiet and comfort of the womb
To be branded and twisted into what they want
Another mindless worker, another dollar
They want you to think life is about work
It's not, life is about LIVING
The sadness I see in a crowd is unbearable
Everyone longs to free themselves
Of these heavy shackles of society
So tell me, fellow beings
How do we break free?
Jun 9, 2015
Jun 9, 2015 at 11:26 AM UTC
In a new world shop branded
That boasts of good standards
Stacks of clothes folded
Nicely matching the standards
The label proudly gloat
Of the owners wealthy abode
In tiny print it is shone
The country where it's born
China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India
and my own
Lands where brands aren't a
priced norm
The hands that stitched them
never know
That she is paid less than the
branded piece you own
Jun 1, 2015
Jun 1, 2015 at 8:15 AM UTC
You are bonfire smoke
Clinging to my favorite clothes
Washed my hair 30 times
Felt your hair in my fingers
Every single time
And when I look in the mirror
I wear your smile
This glow in my eyes
Is reflecting off your skin
If I pricked my finger
It'd be your blood
You're coarsing rapidly
Through my veins
I need a transfusion to escape
Sep 9, 2014
Sep 9, 2014 at 2:15 PM UTC
The smoke does not bother me
any more than
the burning flesh
The scars will heal slowly
beneath my clothes
and I will turn my head
the other way
should anyone notice the ash on my skin
or the limp in my stride
because they are the only things you have left to control me
and I will heal
and I will move on
After all, like pain
you are only temporary
Feb 18, 2014
Feb 18, 2014 at 12:59 PM UTC
No one will be there save you
whenever you please
or listen
with sympathy
They smile when you fall
Hidden by masks
they laugh
but hide away
should you choose
to stand again
And you will stand again
because no one can ever hurt you
as long as you are there
to save yourself
Feb 18, 2014
Feb 18, 2014 at 1:00 PM UTC