#unscathed
I try, I try
To detach, to distance
To disconnect my existence
To be unbothered by you
I try, I try
To look within, seek happiness
To stay unaffected, show resistance
To overcome your persistence
in hurting me.
But one after the other, your arrows strike
Avoiding the pain, I continue to fight
Even winning the war, I stay alive
But my skin doesn't let me forget all the scars in sight.
Nov 17, 2022
Nov 17, 2022 at 11:27 AM UTC
that is what they come seeking.
yet, when I tell
them--pretending--Boy Scouts-to-be prepared!
*for the burning,
they gulp saying ok,
but the higher heat of the
fear feted in their eyes,
them instruments
that never lies,
so I send them home,
unscathed,
and
scathed
just enough that
they’ll never ask
twice.*
I’m so easy to please.
brandychanning
Jul 5, 2020
Jul 5, 2020 at 10:47 AM UTC
**Comrades and friends
What seems to be
Is not what really is
When I fall into a hole
You’ve dug for me
You are with me in it
When the swell of the tide
Sweeps me away into oblivion
You dare not rejoice
For the same tide
Will hasten your passage
When it’s your time
Those that harm the body
Only scratch the outer shell
Inside where I reside
I remain beautiful and unscathed
And live to fight another day
Propelled by you willy-nilly
To other realms
In other dimensions
Thus accomplish I
What you fear to contemplate
Mine is a feat for all time
While you wonder and speculate
Endlessly ...**
Jan 20, 2016
Jan 20, 2016 at 3:23 PM UTC