I hate the sight of this mirror
I wish I was in a burrow
I'm stripping the flesh from your bones
Even though you're not what I want
A drumming in my ears
Racing in my heart
And the usual air that sears
Is eating at the dark
I run faster than I can
To set asleep
Every pound of me
In this wasteland
And at sunset I see
Cacti blooming together
And a corpse with few feathers
That could have been me
I think way too much ahead
And fog gets to my bed
Nobody hears these screams the same
Nobody heard what I said
You say you're high enough, and I'm here below
But my weapon can reach you
And cut you to pieces, feed you to a pisces
And bury you in snow
Sometimes I'm just a stray dog
Feeding on a little carcass in a dirty alley
Of a bunny self sacrified
Which responds to the name of day's demise
Food to get back upright, and my sadness valleys
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In The Shadows
PuisiMy fourth poetry book, all about introspection in this time of lockdown.