Poem

tell me what

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tell me what I want to hear

and dress it up in bows

tell me what I want to hear

things no one else would know

tell me I can do no wrong

and fill me up with pride

tell me why this world is flawed

let that one wrong slide

 

tell me what I want to hear

I’ll rid the waste with no appeal

eat four square meal

brand the cow

and walk the dog

slay the hog

if you would only just tell me

what I want to hear

 

please hurry

I am in such haste

the cows are coming home

we’ve got empty dinner plates

Sally’s teeth are falling out

and Benny’s cheques are bouncing

Timmy has run out of pills

bedridden Mother so demanding

so

 

tell me

tell me

tell me

please

 

if you want to save yourself

and everyone you love

you will tell me what I want to fucking hear

and all of the above

 

 

 

Fear is the Strength and Strength is Abandon

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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

Baited

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I was captured

on a sunny day

with that sharp

sparkling line

The invitation cast

manipulation

My mouth may be hooked

yet I cannot help

to laugh along with you

For it was my own fault

I followed you to the shore

I wanted to know more

You showed me your feet

and danced on the beach

I was enticed

by the glow of the lights

But it was all for show

I didn’t know

and now

even though

you tore me apart

I sit here on display

as your trophy

polished and beautiful

but

gutless

and missing my spine

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