DECAYED COMPONENT


Corrosive feeling becomes
The world around me
I can't take the image
You've placed before me
A dream that shatters
And plagues my mind forever
It's not enough to pull on the strands
When the limbs are there for the taking
Waiting for the end
While I create my own
Reality
Figments and fragments
liespainfearemptybitterness
Hate
All the pieces compose a wall
That you will never crush
Because you don't know that it's there
It's eyes have a distaste for sight
Lidless unblinking sight
Tired dry stare
Unfaltered and unbeaten
More by habit than choice
Waiting for the day of tears


© 1999 Kelly Turner