forgiveness

A Poem by Nobody.

my eyes have shattered proper
at the sound of neon screams.
steel bones
bend beneath the weight
of your birdsong dishonesty
that pounds, pounds, pounds
until everything is as flat
as the smile I fake
when you ask if I’m alright,
and as dead as the love we make,
when, for my sake, you shiver
like lifeless dry leaves
caught in the breath of an angry sky,
where the only in-flight birds
are as black as a lawyer's conscience,

and searching
for a tender heart to devour.
I cower at the thought
of the exhaust fumes trapped in my guts
by the bullshit you stuffed
in my smokestack head;
enough to kill the population
of a tiny island nation, and leave
nothing but a piece of coal float-
ing where there was once manic life.
I’m a broken rifle in the mouth
of a suicidal god,
too outdated to be remembered,
too beastlike to be adored
by a horde of sunshiny backstabbers like us.

that god & I must learn to die alone gracefully.

here’s fare for the bus.

may it explode halfway to your house,

and send up incendiary shards of bone and steel

that will cut through my roof and impale me.

then, maybe, we can begin to forgive

one another.

maybe.

© 2011 Nobody.

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SilentVerses

Really like the style of this, the structure though choppy at times works to portray the emotion and story you are telling, the enjambment beautifully links together the sentences and words as they trail after one another, it is a great piece, the metaphors paint images and whisper words that are magnificent in their literary prose and yet provide a deep sense of darkness and melancholy. it is wonderful.