They starved you at a feast.
Tied to a chair and watched those around you
Stuffing faces and
Having over full bellies,
Rubbed.
While you cried,
Died,
Wasting away until you couldn’t even be tied with ropes.
Hopes,
Put on someone who could save you died
On dried and cracked lips
Hips
Only thing you thought you were good for was cock rocking and moaning
And groaning you did away with their pain
Rain
Came down torrential
Unintentional but, it’s all your fault,
Right?
Plight
Goes on unanswered everyday,
everyway you asked and pleaded
They stood up and retreated,
defeated you cried,
died felt the pain,
the rain,
and like a current you were dragged again and again.
They weren’t enough, much too rough.
They got cut,
And you were the one to bleed.
Their need the same refrain.
Remains,
You gathered them up in fragile arms.
A magpie in the wild,
A raccoon in the woods,
Collecting and erecting the skeleton of a life you could love
Shoved
Down, drowned in rivers of your own fears
Gasping for air
Hair,
You cut just to divest from the stress of a world closing in,
Hoping that a change on the outside
Will rearrange you inside
Ride it out,
Breathe it in,
Quell the storm that rages within,
Kin
Never loved you,
When you needed them they abandoned you too.
Shamed and Blamed you too
Withdrew,
Into yourself,
Into your art,
Into your head,
To your core.
Ore.
You found a prize behind the pain.
Didn’t get better,
You got even!
Decided to soar higher than anyone’s expectations
You believed in you,
Got through.
Thrived.
Striving to be more,
And greater.
You smashed the ceiling
Unfeeling,
As the glass cut you
Because you learned long ago,
That success didn’t happen without a little discomfort.
Your life started out tough,
But you know that terrain.
Here’s your refrain.
It’s all uphill from here.
You’ve kissed the sky.
And Helios touched you!
Used to be a victim of your own mind,
Reflect, directed it back and
Now…
You know your own truth
Warren Dalton 