in///under my skin

i feel you///creep

i

n///under.

my skin

where you///end

do I begin

never sure,

is that convenient?

were I just b

y your design

can I break

...free,

will you///keep me

locked i

n///

this cage,

your prison

you///we

drown me

i

n///lies

self-fulfilling

prophecies

worthy of

n...

nothing of

v...

value or goodness

ending. same as

beginning. alone...i

n///the dark

*

burn my eyes from the truth

eye for eye, tooth for tooth

burn my heart from the pain

art for art, stain of shame

brand my soul from control

stolen soul, empty hole

regarding the guarding

her garden i

n///ruins

degrading the radiant

her heart i

n///ruins

suitably subtlety

my weakness, not hers

reckless and loveless

my damage, not hers

*

moments come, moments go

stuck i

n///a loop, to and fro

people live, people die

stuck i

n///a loop, how and why

///We're not infallible, indelible

reaching for something, anything

that matters, to us and them

that makes, life worth living

more than

moments, the to and fro, come and go

*

the curve

of experience

the slant

of life

the bend

of it all

the trend

of it all

for giving

forgiveness

for going

forging ahead

the dulling

from experience

the sullen

from life

the boredom

from it all

the trivial

from it all

for getting

forgotten

for aging

foraging

*

Thanks for reading!

Author's Notes: This originally started at as a number of different pieces I was working on for the Inverse Challenge, but I realised they closely aligned so created this instead. I may still enter the separate pieces for the Inverse challenge though. This does not qualify in its complete form, and that's fine.