Skin, Flesh, Hatred Obsessed

-Skin, Flesh, Hatred Obsessed-
by Keaton Foster


Skin, flesh
Hatred obsessed
Knowing nothing
Of thy truest self
But you
Way out there
Stranger
So declared
Understand everything
About all that is me
And you won’t spill
Oh the hell
You’ll keep it close
A deeper secret
A darker resentment
You won’t tell a soul
Not one alone
Secrets are your weapons
Your method of inflicting
Greater are your calculations
I speak with ease
While you speak with meaning
I speak as a form of appeal
You speak as a method to deal
Your judgment of me
Has hurt me most of all
And you are well aware of it
You take each of these words
Using them against me
Using them to hate me
Showing me something
From your towering assumptions
Teaching me a dangerous lesson
One not asked
One not requested
One that you alone
Have deemed needed
I have no god
But you are all deity
Skin, flesh
Hatred obsessed
You won’t let it go
You won’t loosen your grip
Always upon the rope
Around my neck
Tightening just a bit
Slow suffocation
Will be my ultimate death
You will continue on
Stealing my words
Claiming them as your song
Your badge of wounds
In a world without honor
You’ll commit each lie
As truth and fact
You’ll bring yourself up
Higher than ever before
You’ll be a member of the club
Whichever you wish
Whatever you desire
All of it had
At the expense of my mind
And this terrifying life
You will become me
Because I myself
Am nothing to no one else
You know I won’t be missed
Because who I am is a lie
One that goes no further
Than the crafted name
Upon this bleeding page
If anyone looks to see
They’ll find nothing
But a man
That is merely a dream
One made up
One not even remotely real
A fictitious hero of much less
Skin, flesh
Hatred obsessed
From me in due time
You’ll take everything
But not until I truly suffer
For all that you’re sure I am
And all that you believe I did
You’ll take from me what I have
Even though I’m convinced
That what I have
Is nothing most of all…


Skin, Flesh, Hatred Obsessed
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2015.