Day: May 13, 2021

But I defy you with my one last breath.

If I try you again,

You’ll be double the threat.

I hold onto a thread that’s pulling me home.

No one knows

The depths I visit once I’m alone.

But I conquer them with your blotchy past

That you brandish

Like a fairy-tale for the masked.

I’m uncovered, I’m free from your jail,

But I’m short on spite,

Too prone to bail.

I must fight it, god, please light me up.

I’m so stuck,

Freezing quickly from the top.

And your eyes tie me down like a leash.

Now I see why it’s lonely

Leading the world from a mezzanine.

One face in the clouds, it’s pristine.

The second face trembling,

Covering up a murder scene.

Still, I pity you through my first unbound breath.

I’m guilty too

But I won’t carry your debt.

-JW