Fail to Hate
- Paul Clive
- Oct 11, 2022
- 1 min read
Fail to Hate
Devoured in vines
Skies clad in iron
Roses like wires
Rusted but still bolted down
Neglected aches
Still stitches for days
Weird bumps in my brain
Stretching to infinity
Riding the waves
A rising tide still leaves me sinking
Sketching across my skin
Icy like a bite of wind
Intertwined I lift my eyes
And dissociate
Disassembling the only version of myself
I might fail to hate
Leafing through fragments
Growing up through fractures
Buried under pavements
Bitten like broken anxious moments
Thundering in the distance
Filling this cathedral
With everything these lungs have
This heart has left
How can I collect these stars
Staying on the ground?
Concretions growing on these arms
Nameless hungers growing
Dwelling in distortions
Bursting between temples
Unsure if this infighting
Is worth a second try
Neglected scars realized
Lingering in ages long gone
Preternatural prenatal fault-lines
Parasitic rites
Shock-waving across the deep blue
The sky unwinds
The hungry mouths of clouds scattering
Purging this transforming dread
Sacred, I begin again
Scared of what this means
Cycles of harm and deep regret
Of every wasted moment
Treading wasteland wasting time
But I'll meet the horizon yet
Construct a version of myself
I might fail to hate

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