Sunday, 16 February 2025

Invisible bus

 


I stand watching the invisible bus fly past.

No escape, no exit from this path.

Do I have something in my eye?

Cheeks swollen from tears cried.

It's the fear that hurts the most,

The fear that you can't cope,

that the only thing getting you by

was that thread of hope dangling from the bed

of someone you thought you knew.

When you finally realise that the love isn’t true,

you wonder, is there something wrong with you?

Was there anything different you could do?

A different version of this where hope comes through.

 

I stand here a little longer,

the bus may come soon.

And what is behind me? 

My lonely room with her stuff

littering the floor making it feel

like a shrine to a false goddess,

or perhaps more like a tomb.

It was doomed before it even began,

our hearts ran in different circles,

our storylines at completely different angles,

but I let my heart strings dangle

and I was pulled right in

 

At first it was solidarity and bliss,

all the loving memories of a first kiss,

but those quickly became a dark mist

clouding the vision from all the hurt

that was lurking, ready and eager to pounce.

I gave away my 8 ounces,

and she fed. Lips crimson red.

Inside I bled from where that muscle once sat,

the pain was enough

to make you wish you were dead.

 

You see, she got into my head,

leaving it an unmade bed of mistakes,

friends became people I once knew,

faded outtakes from a movie once viewed.

Every thread of life, she pulled from above

like a puppeteer, controlling the way you live.

Turned into a bag of nerves, too scared

to emerge and become the person I knew I was.

 

So, I stand waiting

for a bus that will never come,

they stopped this service

a long, long time ago,

but I get to stand here

alone for a while,

knowing that the antimuse

can't dull my shine.

Knowing that I'm standing

on my own two feet

and not being taken for a ride

by a puppeteer

with a wicked smile.

 

 




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Kyle

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