Bend the light

If your eyes could swallow me whole

Would your irises taste my rage,

Reflect it, black?

Would your corneas digest my shame,

Spit it out, putrid?

Like a bird-mother, would you feed me chewed-up remedies

That might calm the questions writhing,

Underneath my translucent skin?

 

SS �" 07 December 2019

Reviews

[Chris]

a lot of talk to walk within this one.

[olla]

this is a powerfully defiant cry.. it stopped me mid breath.. I have actually had to read it more than once to take it all in..