Took a Poem To a Knife Fight
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My poem examines how a the trauma of a lost love can trigger a self destructive course of behaviour.
I lost my mind
somewhere
between the seconds ticking
God left
and the devil punched in
Stray winds
dark and long
blew coldly on my paper sails
as
things I thought I knew
sank away
down into lightless fathoms
And when
in answer to my begging letters
a bashful dawn bled in
I made her promises
that somewhere
deep within
I knew
I’d only go and break
Copyright © Jonty Pennington-Twist | Year Posted 2023
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