Shards of paper

Shards of paper

Litter the floor

Shards of paper 

Of what is no more

Shards of paper

Like shards of glass

Will rip up your insides

When swallowed too fast

Shards of emotion

In shards of desire

Dropping shards of water

On fingers of fire

Shards of hopes

Mixed in shards of dreams

Shards of what's broken

By shards of human beings

The confetti is faulty

The words cut like knives

When someone dismembers 

Parts of your life

The truth it is shattered

By the one that you'd trust

With your hopes and desires

Your love and your lust

But instead they scream liar 

The spit smears your face 

As shards of tears

Stream down your face

It would be so easy 

To pretend you don't care

To see how they meant to kill you

Once they lured you there

In shards of light

Of your soul laid to waste

The darkness descends

Shards of life beat to paste

When once it smelled candy

When once it smelled nice

Troops of vermin

Feed on maggot covered eyes

Sweep up the shards

They litter the place

Wipe clean all emotion

Make stone of my face

What mess do you speak of

Follow the sweep of my arm

In shards of honesty

I swept the s**t from this barn

In a barrel to burn

Shards of a story not read

No point in dreaming

I'm off to bed

Reviews

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. very powerful work ... i've seen the ugliest hues of betrayal ... and you express them brilliantly ... above and beyond those attacks, i believe, is a place where we realize that the attackers are less in control than the attacked ... or, so i think ...

[Shelley Holt-Lowrey]

V e r y w e l l s t a t e d. Such a staccato style of spitting out these words. It is amazing how those who are supposed to care the most and who hold the power to hurt us the deepest do not take care better care with their words in that they slice into our hearts. But it happens. Is it purposeful and with mal-intent? Maybe. Maybe not. I like to think maybe not. The world is prettier that way. And with all those pieces of confetti paper littering the place, it is cleaner too. Thank you!