I cannot escape this place, this one truth that both gave me life and took it away. |
-Sorrows Womb- by Keaton Foster Refusal Of all things Renewable Change A wisdom Unsubscribed I’m here Crouched Fetal position An adult man Like a child Unable to grow Unwilling To ever let go She, my mother Deceased Suicide over time More of a parasite Than an offspring I’m screaming For sustenance While there is none The teat is poisoned Any nutrition Has since been replaced With a toxic stew Of years of abuse Always in my mind So twisted and wide I’m safe here In sorrows womb Out there Beyond all that I care Are total strangers People full of dangers Those who will hurt me Even if they mean no harm I am incapable of assimilation I cannot be like them Because I cannot be myself I am man turned child A child made into a monster And a hell of a lot of things In between In this rotting bosom Of creation And dare I say Absolute obliteration I am safe From everything That I fear most of all Which is everything That is beyond my control My mind a prison My heart a cage Even if I escape one There is always the other Sorrows womb The truth Of all that I know And more importantly All that I won’t Refusal Of all things Renewable Change A wisdom Unsubscribed I’m here Crouched Fetal position An adult man Like a child Unable to grow Unwilling To ever let go… Sorrows Womb Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014. |