Monday, 27 January 2025

Witness

 


Witless,

I need a witness,

It’s like I've been enlisted,

deep into warzone fatigue

where pain gets twisted,

and bombs rain around me.

The bullets are all missing,

but one is bound

to strike me down,

as sure as a clock

will reach up in surrender,

as sure as an hourglass

will end up

just one empty chamber 

pointed at my crown.

 

I need a witness,

fingers itch

over self-destruction

safety switch.

I can't take this,

I need to escape it.

I see my own handwriting,

my name scrawled upon the hitlist.

I feel choking anxiety

undeniably pulling

on my last nerve

The pain is

unjustifiably

relentless.

 

I need a witness,

someone to see

my last chance twitch.

To see it flinch and crawl.

Hope pinned

in a photograph on the wall,

but the brickwork is crumbling

and like my last breath exhaling

to dust it will all fall.

 

I need a witness,

the man in black is here

like an afterlife postman

ready to deliver us

to the snakes and the beasts.

Ready to devour on their mortal feasts.

The Serpents and creeps

looking down from their tower.

To the leering old goats

with hooves of fire

pointing towards

the final funeral pyre.

Where a photograph of hope

smoulders, as the ashes

raise higher.

 

 




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Peace, Love & Poetry
Kyle



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