Monday, 4 August 2025

Stand and deliver

 


Stand and

deliver,

it should be easy.

Take the venom

that flows through

your veins and let it shout.

Let the love that remains

bubble to the surface

and then pour that out.

Take every emotion and wring it dry,

take the feelings that make you cry

and let them fall from your lips

like raindrops from an overcast sky.

 

Stand and deliver.

Take the bile

created in the liver,

take the anger

that you can feel slither

through every nerve,

and let the words soar.

Take every ounce of rage,

the pain that makes you ill,

every teardrop left upon your page

and deliver them like a pill

to administer the cure.

It’s easy they say,

break free from your cage

and let your words spray

true and raw.

 

So, with quivering legs of jelly

I wobble. Unsteady. I flail.

I’m not ready.

What if I fall? What if I fail?

Internally I’m churning.

My face burning.

I’m yearning for the world

to swallow me.

Take me. Cover me.

Hold me tightly like a lover

and stop this

sweat drenched face

from being uncovered.

 

But the words

start to seep out of me.

The mic cracks, I step slightly back

and feel my breathing relax.

Then I step forward.

On the attack.

I’m running barefoot through

blades of glass

and I feel the shards cutting my soul

whilst dodging the mental feedback

that is trying to stop me in my tracks,

but my heart is still intact

and the words... The words

have taken a life of their own.

Now my voice is not mine,

It’s borrowed, on loan.

A whole new tone

giving my stories

a brand-new home.

 

 




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Kyle

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