and they were all connected

like water with the wind,
their strands were all dissected,
their hands and hearts were pinned,
their pasts were resurrected-
they made stamps out of their sins,
their walls were white and washed they never
blinked to see a picture
their calls quietly severed
they never stopped to think it injured
their paws did lose all padding
their gaze did lose adding
like water in the wind
their strands were all dissected
they hold their stamps out heavy
they fold their arms as levee
they close their eyes as curtains
they draw their mind for shelter

I left

my heart in my hand

just to see how it beats

watching it pulsing

like a tickertock time machine

running out of it

-how bizarre 

sunlight never asked for a shadow

so I snip at the one by my feet

like an extra gravity it pulls at my

happiness

and I feel lost

I want to retreat

jump into that painted nothing where

cold is a cage that contains you

I may have lost the plot again

 

 

 

 

stale stillness

death in our faces

words from our minds

feelings in displacement

frames of many lines

crisscrossed grills puzzle-piece us

into jigsaws scattered now

as we bite into despondency

to realise what we are now

where long ago- once happy

now the stillness seems so stale

it is rotting it is fading

in a stinking form of pale

am i drowning in this desert?

in soft sand toes sink and still

like a statue petrified

it is but a corpse so ill