Untitled Unresolved

the rancid acrid stench

of relationship postmortem

seeps through the stale void

left by a love long gone

into the cracks wrought by

unimagined deviation

from the blueprint once created

and clung to like a lifeline

with an obstinate hand

well hardened by the compress

of heaped hotheaded hurt

a patchy reality wrenched

by emotions left untamed

to a lone hallucination

unkempt, unloved, unreigned

Reviews

[blakjassy]

this poem shows such insight to the human condition... the bitterness and sometimes hatred that replaces the once loudly pronounced statements of love.

[Brad Nugent]

For everyone who has had the experience of relationship breakdown, JB. Thank God for the transitory state of negative human emotions.

[Jeremy Baker]

Did you write this for me? It says it all, really. Great writing - I am in awe as always.