Poems from UnderneathTheTortoiseShell
I’m staring myself in the mirror
Looking at monsters in reflection’s light
It is on nights like these where I just wonder
If hugging is...
Forced open and
Torn like paper
This sheet had words
On it
Meaning
Unread
Never to be known
People come along
With rolls of tape
And...
Concerned hand
Shoots up
Riddled with
Purple tracks along
Vein’s corridors indicating
Another kind of shooting
Eyes glassy yet aware...
I finally listened
Today when I was
Wide awake in my
Bed and your name,
Your image came
Into my mind
Unannounced yet
Expected in a...
Walking along gloomy
Streets, the sight of
Yesterday
Too disturbing to
Not be recalled
To mind’s eye
Empty bridge today
Does not reflect...