I have a new poem.

'A Bitter Understanding'

Hard
Yet softly enticed by
the docile features
staring back from within

Framed
cartilage eyes
American
cauterised
I barely
feel your skin

Alone
inside
the inky waves
that fall
beneath the
shallow

I emerge
subsidised
left to
cauterise
within the
hollow

Blood
spouting
from
holes
I never
knew existed

hands tied
back reclined;
they’ll never find
you before dawn;

Wrapped in rags of yesterday
the body snakes into despair
Mouth sucking in air
like a new-born

Oceans of tar
reaching out to
suck you down
and destroy

Like satan himself
to lead you astray,
the devil’s minions
come out to play…

First light
gives a resonance
so blinding

But it’ll be too late
by murky water grey
when they realise
with some regret
they’ve missed their chance;

for a deeper understanding



11/11/07 – A.C.J