it took months to figure you out
beyond the rain and after the drought
I felt my pocket empty
in it when I reached
nothing but remains of your cliches
always took what you could
things I could not replace
you inhaled my space
drank my health
sank your teeth
sucked my wealth
these days i stumble upon you
by memory
i fight back
resisting charm
slow fast heartbeats
and i turn around
Quintessential
barbed wires intertwine around my ankle
I try to pull away and such but
fruitlessness is evident
It seems as though I am caught
in this frightening trap
Time is the only friend I have left
that will tell me when it ends
Only then relief will kiss my feet
only then rest and slumber deep
and let them spite
hate me – all damned day & night
if that is what comforts their own self-loathing
maddening as it can be;
they can take their misplaced judgments
keep them sound, in lying, mirrored-lidded jars
I will fly free
comparable to a sunrise after the pillage
I will fly free
maybe only me, can love me
why must I be so unrelenting
in my pursuits
why must I break my body
to the point of pain
I live in a gumdrop world now
I don’t live in squalor or shame no longer
so why
why must I
A gang of evergreens sway unbothered in increasing wind
He crouches between them
Pressing darkness overhead races to meet the thunder
Casting air into lungs – he erects from dirt
The seduction of submission gnaws on his heels
He brazens into open field
Closing in are the bleating calls of scathing violence
Nothing but red rain on the horizon
Water falls – an unrelenting beating of the Earth
Afraid – yet past indignities ignite the war-lust within him
brittle gum 