Adolescence

(This is for the mislead youth finding a way through…)

A statue in a four walled prison,

    Entrapment screaming in rage….

Like the moonlight bleeds in its crimson,

    A wounded pigeon without a cage…

The wind and its carnage,

    A wall that chants rebellion…

The lamp with a taunting hemorrhage,

      A loser with a medallion ….

The gift with a ribbon of curses,

    A feather to write a book…

The wooden box with no roses,

    A string that’s got no hook…

The firefly in a jar of wax,

    A candle with a wooden wick…

The knight with a marble axe,

    A flower on a porcelain stick…

The paint on a broken glass,

    A ring on a swollen thumb…

Coffee inside a woolen flask,

    A memory sunk in rum…

The flight to a landing plane,

A chime on a dead telephone…

The spite in a laughing face,

    An eyelid carved in limestone… 

The nicotine in a stubbed cigarette,

    A weed in a tulip’s garden…

The tint in a street light silhouette,

    A sear in a winter jargon…