I gave her chancesPlenty of chancesChances to act and walk and talk and breatheAnd treat and wound the way sheShould.We had our chance, and we blew it through a paper straw,Watched it blow away like litter in the wind.Shoulders hunched, spine aching,Back breaking with the weight of the world.I am in her arms, her head lies dormant on my chestSimply a breath away from the press of my lipsTo skin...

Don’t look at yourself

Follow me follow me she eagerly said but as she turned, the minotaur horns pertrude from her headAs pandora closes the box after releasing all human ills, She sits in sickness as she swallows her pills, She punished herself from that day on,Deceptive expectation replaced hope and finally hope was gone,Pandora pandora what did you do,You opened the box in the hope of finding truth,Instead the de...

This year the doors closed for many, but for me they were always closed. I was shut within a world. An atmosphere. The atmosphere was as it was in a congested city but it wasn’t visible. No smog, except the incense sticks to cleanse the perceived  evil haunting me.No smoke, except the burning hatred in me being dissipated into tears that condensed into this atmosphere.Yet it was still just li...