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The Wounded

With a little hiss
Like an effervescent pill
Drifting away and away
But still
Clinging to him with invisible strings
She always looked back
To the lands of her dreams.
A consignment of robots
With rubber souls
And seven months pre matures
Tarnished her liquids
And treaded her robes
Of white frosts.
The cunning smiles
With cigars in their hands
Tamed her wilds
Into snares and chains.
The veld fires and acid rains
Reduced her greens
Into blistered orange sheets.
Her very core
Excavated
Only left her with bleeding pores.
In your space suits
With adjusted sails
You are ready to wade
To unknown lands.
But why are you still clinging to her skeletal cores
With umbilical cords?
Moaning and crying over her scars
She, who once, was a particle of a star.

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A Story Retold

His tears watered the little sapling
their love had grown
after she had gone
and manured it with
ashes of memories
remains of rotten feelings
and loam of broken desires
He oxiginated it with mournful sighs
till it grew too high
and you know what?
Tough covered with Evening Pride
its branches never bore fruit
But its roots
spread to the infiniteness
and sucked life
from the burrows of his soul.

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Escape

Sometimes a roaring curse
sometimes a hushed threat
Trapped within you
were many doubts and hurts
Do not close your eyes like a frightened bird
Look at the scars
dark indigo
in colour
Do not shut your ears
to the cacophony of voices
all yammering together
Do not roam at the fringes
of high altitude day dreaming
On your descend you will meet
The huge reservoirs
of salt to acid
which after continuously flowing from eyes
have burned
even the last grains
of hope
Forbidden was the proliferation
Slow and agonizing will be detoxification
Stop beach-combing to find
when it was the last you smiled
Greet the waiting astral diplomats
to accompany you on your voyage.

Original Image: Walking the Fish by Christian Schloevery