Shame

When your drowning in emotions untold,
You always hear them ask "What's wrong?"
You know they...

Summertime is society’s peak season for fat-shaming,
a significant increase of cover-that-up bias...

I cannot hurt, harm or humiliate
you any more than I already have ..
I love you, far too...

I think it only fair to say,
most of her life
is spent hidden away or
otherwise...

I can feel myself slipping—liquid,
petrol distress—towards a chasm lair.
Anima planes contain...

The world is going to shit at phenomenal speed
There is no truth left for us to read

...

Sitting there like that
with your legs
slightly parted and your
lips tightly closed...

Here in this miserable oubliette
where they have consigned me ..

I shall wait...

Pray hush now
and listen
can you make out
the words
being muttered
into...

In order to survive,
they had to
acquire the imagination
of a ghetto whore
and...

In my deepest darkest hours of desperation I pray, but never do I when things are okay, amidst my sickness...

In a world of plenty
why are there so many children,
still going hungry ..

The word survivor still feels clunky on my tongue but I’ve learned the truth is rarely sweet.

For...

No escape
Even if I change the name
Even if I move away
No altering from where I came...

They were not
invited
in Portland
or Seattle

In fact they
were
...

I possess a vast Aladdin's Cave,
Brimming with treasures and finery.
Mostly from Harrods of...

The shop on the corner of our terraced street
Was a place where all the neighbours would meet...