S.A.L.I.N.G.E.R T.W.A.I.N
Shunned by society
And coerced into silence until
Less and less of my soul remained
I stared at the abyss and jumped in
Not sure of what would happen
Got deep and deeper until I was
Entirely submerged, I wasn’t
Recognizable to myself or others
To anyone who wants to jump in
Warning, you won’t find the happiness
And the love you crave
In time you will thank me
Never jump in
But she’s so Beautiful
Look at her with all that beauty
She looks so fine, she such a cutie!
Why she’s never had trouble in her life!
Just look at her face, no pain, no strife.
Beautiful complexion, lovely smile
Hair set just right and close in style.
These are the things I hear when people
see my pictures.
Appearances can be deceiving.
My scars appear when you least expect them
They are triggered by a smell, a sound, a certain circumstance. They all come together and my mind and body does a little dance.
My body had wounds that have already healed,
but my soul has scars that you cannot see they are harder to find and the hardest to heal.
Bones
Ravens peck at my fingers
alabaster bones peek through
like trees rooted in my palm
devoured flesh feeds hungry flock
Ravens peck at my fingers
no longer pointing at empty heart
my yearning for you bleeds out
begging lend me fingers once more
Ravens peck at my fingers
unfilled spaces where you used to be
I wish your fingers filled the void
of the person I was meant to be
Ravens peck at my fingers
no longer able to touch your stars
unfurled and flapping aimlessly
adrift, unable to fill missing gap
Ravens peck at my fingers
searching for missing pulse
you’re imprinted forever on fingers
images floating in my mind
Ravens peck at my fingers
shoveled into maw of yawning earth
weight of a casket in my damp rest
fingers not required in final repose.
The Conjoined
Partnered together
Everyday without the chance
Of the freedom even those
In Authoritarian societies possess
Isolation
Aloneness
Desperation however persists for the separate
And those of the togetherness
“What is it to be a conjoined being?”
The slurs
The questions
It’s unbearable
And all so quite
Annoying
“Give us this day our daily bread”
“Since life eternal is a confusion.”
Are their two souls or not?
In the Codge made of two supposed ones
In this case 2=1
1+1 does not = 2
How bizarre!
To think that you could be together
Till death do you part
And not even be married
HA!
