Monday, 13 January 2025

Damaged

 


He was damaged goods,

or so his thoughts screamed.

A spoiled meal

left far too long to serve.

A whipped ice cream dripped

over the paving slabs

that time never cleans.

His sentence served

on the rubbish heap of time.

Undeserved, but it seemed

like the unreserved seating

had been replaced

by this sense of waste.

Standing room only

and his feet - already wracked,

Pain leapt up us legs to his back.

and now he was left displaced.

 

The only place his dreams still lived,

was somewhere

hidden away deep within,

where his seeking eyes

couldn't see, and his ears

could only tune to one frequency.

Just white noise

upon a static soundscape.

A chalkboard fingernail scrape

of yesterdays nightmares,

torn into the warning label of a red flag,

like a worn-out shopping bag

tearing apart at the seams,

ready to dump all your stuff

over this one-way street

of bad dreams.

 

He fell into a whirlpool haze

the cyclical lifestyle,

the endless trudge of denial.

Escape. Escape. Escape.

Scrape by a few more days

to find just a few more ways

to get his parts to make sense.

Sticking tape over his torn heart,

to keep its contents from pouring

through the hole that is tearing him apart.

Escape. Escape. Escape.

Sometimes there is no saviour

in a flowing cape,

just a vampire

with a smirk on their face,

sucking away at the blood

you leave in your wake.

The one thing

that made you feel human,

to feel a part of this place.

 

 




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Kyle

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