What if I told you
The pages
Of my heart
Are illegible?
That they’re cemented together
With a crimson epoxy
Formulated by the grief
That slowly leaks
Inside of me.
What if I told you
The words
Were never written
To be read?
That the invisible ink
I sink
Into the chambers
Of my heart
Is penned there to hide…
To survive inquisitive eyes.
What if I told you
The covers
Hugging those pages
Are bound
By a dungeon
Of self-preservation?
That chains hang
From the broken spine
And cuffs strangle
A naked narration.
And what if I told you
I was beyond restoration?
Would you still
Take the time
To rebind
My bleeding
Into a book
That’s worth reading?
About the Creator
Tessa Glasgow
35. Stay at home mom. Dark Poetess
IG: @deadofnightpoetry
My debut poetry collection, “Wildfire From Hell: Poetry and Prose,” is now available on Amazon.
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Disarmament
They say there's no atheism in the foxhole. While I wasn't currently neck-deep in a river of soft sediment, I was still praying to whoever would listen. Why am I doing this again? I would ponder while staring at the device that in no less than a minute could be my undoing. I scanned each and every variable panel and commonplace button as I watched the bright red L.E.D ticker countdown. No wires to cut, no code to put in, there was only one way to stop this infernal machine, and that incurred perfect timing.
By James U. Rizzi3 days ago in Fiction
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That was intense!
This is my favorite poem of yours. Superb work, very heart-wrenching and relatable