Best Poems Written by Aj Kay

Broken Audio

I haven’t written in a while

I seem to have lost my voice

I'm not sure where or when it left me

Or where to find it

I have a feeling its in different pieces

Shards of echoes

splattered inside old notepads

pressed between the cinderblocks of 10th grade biology

Humiliation is a powerful numbing agent

Paired hand in hand with cheap liquor

I can’t remember who I was angry at

I wish my face belonged to my brain

I wish my brain belonged to a body

That wasn’t itching for eternal rest

I wish my bones didn’t feel like shoes that don’t fit right

Too small, but you pretend they will stretch

Up until the point that the blisters can no longer be ignored.

I wish I hadn’t stopped reading books

I wish my parents watched sports, and smiled, and owned decorative pillows

I think my voice was suffocated

By boys who saw nothing but a mouth

I can talk now, but I’m mute

On autopilot, with closed captions written by you.

Copyright © Aj Kay | Year Posted 2016