Thursday, 13 February 2025

Dehumanise

 


Try to dehumanise,

turn me into something

to despise.

Try to grind me down.

It's working,

but I'm hanging around.

I'm going nowhere,

you can't dig my hole

before I'm ready.

You can't have my soul,

and I’m not here

to be dead and buried

 

Try to cut me off

from all I've come to know.

Cut me out

like a tumour that grows.

I'm not a cancer, or a growth.

I'm not a parasite, I have worth.

You can't bury me,

dig merrily,

but I'm not going where you

are trying to send.

This is not the end

but a new beginning,

where I will sing

if my heart wants to sing.

 

Try to throw me

discarded memories.

You believe

I’ll fade. You think,

I'll fall into nothing,

just blend into the shade,

with my degraded self-belief

balled up and thrown

into history’s rubbish bin.

You assume

that my self-worth is

just a mask,

that I wear nothing beneath.

I'd ask you to be very sure of that,

before you try to take me to task.

 

Try to end my story,

sad songs play on a jukebox,

ticking clocks all stop,

but I'm not ready

for the wooden box

you have laid out for me.

Try to put me down,

I'll swim for a while in the grime

but time

will conspire to seal your fate

before I've put my hand

on the fiery exit gate.

 

So, say hello to hell.

I'll see you down there,

when my funds have run dry

and my cheques won't clear.

When my balance

has sunk into the red

and I've used my last reserves.

When my account has expired,

and I've paid off every debt.

When I've wrung all of the love

I can give from this ragged heart.

Then I'll meet you again,

on that you can bet.

 

 




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