lights go out hush descends on
me, merry-blazing inferno that I am
raging against my fuel, pissed off
little blaze, not understood by anyone, least of all
me
on one wall are seven portraits cheerful
on the other a grinning girl, but she don’t love
me anymore, or she do, which is worse? I can lie awake
asking myself, seeking out answers in the place I’m
least likely to find them
so one side of my bed faces my childhood, and the other
my rage, rage, burning passionate ever brighter ever higher
shame that fills my lungs, and sometimes my stomach and
worst it goes for the eyes nips with
persistence, gnat of humility that adorns my brow,
then launches to orbit my head while I dance and smile,
then settles back
I can’t face her, she won’t pat my hair down when
it lifts off my head in plumes revealing an
old sandwich once nibbled on by
Men Of Intellect but now mouldering
in direct opposition to the
satirical whirring of my frontal lobe
No one cares.
Not even me really.
I don’t even care that
I’m a cliché.
And fuck you for
being so bright
(and happy.) |