Words

Words are enough.

They don't some overdramatized definition of them,
Don't be a fool to explain it to me.
I'd rather die a lonely and cruel death, by my own hands.

Words —
They don't come easy, do they?

The blurry effect on my left iris left me partially blind.
It tears my other eye to see it in the mirror.

Words, they are spat out like fetid, rotting chunder,
Why do they taste so putrid and smell so obnoxious?

When I try to let them out, they escape through my eye,
Leaking and spewing festering dross.

Technicolor yawn mimics the man in the mirror and then
He would call in sick the next day.

As the pus decay in the drought and barren land of my eye,
I was recommended using Ciprofloxacin.

Words —
Words like "I need help" and "why does it hurt so bad?"
I wish I never knew how to speak.

Instead of the infection of my worm-eaten and vile eye,
I desiderate it be my mouth rather.

Words like these are what made me feel how I feel now,
Enervated and debilitated.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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