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Wire
Contributed by
child
on
Monday, 5th May 2003 @ 07:05:00 AM in AEST
Topic:
oops
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Barefoot.
I stepped upon a fishing hook.
Your barbed question set to catch me out.
Broken skin.
A guilty cut and clean.
But quietly I smoothed over the wound; so it was never there.
We went back to how we were.
Didn’t know the faithful hook caught fast
With spider’s cord spun, spooling from the clasp.
Didn’t know, didn’t notice the gnawing wire stretch,
Coiling round blood cables, clamping on my breath.
Reeling.
You unconsciously begin to reel me in.
My absent minded friend, you forget your trap.
I forget the biting hook
And wonder why I feel the tug when you are far away.
Metal scythes through simple flesh:
Internal bleeding when you wrench
Your hook and chain, catching in my blood.
Silence.
So I must live in this pretence
Ignore the cutting wire cocoon
Poisoning the blood, making me sick.
Copyright ©
child
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2003-05-05 07:05:00]
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Re: Wire
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by norm on
Monday, 26th May 2003 @ 09:18:27 AM AEST
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wow..the mental image of your poem is
compelling |
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Re: Wire
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by Listener on
Monday, 26th May 2003 @ 06:05:43 PM AEST
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| This caught me so off guard.. I really liked it! Great read!!! |
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Re: Wire
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by GuyJular on
Monday, 23rd August 2010 @ 10:19:57 PM AEST
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| I assume this is a metaphor for how u have been treated by a significant other in the past. |
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