Sidewalk Manchion
By bedazzled •
Scarlet wanderings,
crimson reflexes,
blood washed into pores.
Icy reviews
and insufferable
replays.
A sidewalk manchion.
One step out,
10 steps back in.
Prisoner of words.
Cold, cold, damaging
italics.
A diamond fracture
again.
Dirty rainbow promises.
Fingertip goodbyes.
A frequent ache,
unsettled pulse.
Again, again,
again.
No more
inhaling or exhaling
of dusty syllables.
I can't consume
this poison truth,
these poison lies
anymore.
There is no doorway,
there is no door.