Poem - 01 August 2018, 16:42

I fight

I fight.
I fight trying to bare the battery
of heinous words
that flood.
That flood from your lips,
right into the drum of my ears.
Words so limpid
Myself
slowly deteriorating
I fight.
Despite my life.

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Misery

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