Monday, July 29, 2019

Unprepared, by Amory McKeever



Lying under all this skin
phosphorus and oxygen
lungs that ache to breathe again
escape from this dungeon within

Carbon cages of magnesium
calcium structures deep beneath
this tired wrinkled sun-dried sheath
would break themselves for Elysium

Cease to beat that central muscle
that pumps the pain with such hustle
to every appendage I would sever
just to avoid that cruel forever

An endless element of cobalt blue
a life left barren without you
stoke the furnace that melts the ore
and craft the shells for this war

It turns out I was unprepared
for her methods that went undeclared
She came in like a Trojan horse
and slayed me with her intercourse

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