A Poem I Wrote - Awall

Awall


They’re matchsticks, threadbare 

like overstretched dresses,

watercolour souls drain like lightning scars

spilling down your leg; much the same

body for body, tongue for tongue,

patting rifles like dog hairs

listening inside for heartbeats,

waiting to pull…out. 


Eyes drift like glaciers,

lockinstep, lockinsight,

it’s all so   f  a  r

from bedtime stories

and tuckings in, the

half-felt jokes sink

like lead, the parental orders like

bombs,


scatter

from the promised land, you’ve

been evicted, your children are dead.

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