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Ferry Poems cont.

II

And I have yet to recover from the sea,

Its waves 

Are my schizophrenia. 

I see people who do not exist,

These ghosts 

That mock me.

And I stare.

They can hear me.

Their darkness surrounds me.

 

Dear Death,


And all I feel is ecstasy.

Pain seeps through

The mangled flesh 

That parts upon the blade.

At last, 

The blood has drained

From my veins.

I am free.

 

II

I kick away this pain 

Of living

My throat catches

In your rough hands,

Your hemp-like embrace.

Place your cloak 

Upon my brain

In stillness, quicken

My darkened vision fades

Silent, the wind 

Inside my chest is empty, 

Replaced

By an eternal silence.

XV

There is no dignity 

In dying

And no purpose 

In living.

 

I am a beaten child.

Your words hurt more 

Than your fists.

 

I cannot die 

By my own hand,

Only by the touch of another

 

When spring comes:

I am reborn.

 

X

Darkness spreads slowly;

A drop of black ink

That pollutes the clear water,

Its black waves crash

Upon white sand beaches.

 

Although it may seem dark to most

We forget 

That black absorbs the most light.

Energy pulses

In the darkness

That fills it with power.

I am who I am.

My darkness is my light!

 

A Battle Within Me

The wind burrows

Above the field.

A dark storm

 

In crimson blood; it pools

Between severed limbs,

Bashed skulls,

Bullet shells,

And my shattered

Body half buried

 

In a bed of poppies.

I rest my head on red pillows.

Rain saunters down

Sideways. 

It calmly tucks me in.

 

VI

Your worst crime 

Was to break your child’s heart.

My scars

Will never quite heal.

And I am Left

With these cracks

That cannot be filled.

By Griffin Wilson

Songbird Duplex

16/19