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This poem is about Borderline Personality. About responsibility, behaviour and its necessary consequences. True to manipulative form, the 'victim' can blame the 'rescue' team and revel in alleged abandonment, as a self-fulfilling prophecy

Border Line

Turbocharged you refuse to stop at the sentry

Full speed ahead on the racetrack of manipulation

Safety belt suspending the breaks in free flight

Airbag punctured long ago in rapid disconnect


I put up traffic lights for you at so many T-junctions

Set boundaries and barriers on both sides of the road

Built bridges and roundabouts and paid traffic fines

But violations kept coming and you crossed the red line


Some say you are too young to have a driving licence

And recite chaos theory for your very own highway to hell

De-rooted yield signs lie broken next to strewn promises

Sweet child now it is time to gather your scrap heap alone


I won’t be drawn into further collusion and enablement

Must wave the chequered flag of surrender of abused trust

You will crash on and on until you take consequent charge

I will not rescue you any longer but secure my own lane



30th January 2020
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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