Poetry

Cobwebs

inkycapnip

18 Apr 2025 — 1 min read

Spindly spider fingers dig into my flesh
Invisible wire wraps round
I force my self to bend
If it's mine, why is it your shame I don?
Coiling around me in venomous tendrils
My dress was not a come-on
Guilt you sowed in my chest I now uproot
As I venture farther spade grows heavy
My forehead is stained with soot

Play dress up in a mirror
Childlike wonder is revived
An intruder knocks down my tree-house
I am gripped by the urge to hide
Whore. Slut. Attention Seeker.
You bulldoze my expansion
How easy it is to throw sharp stones
from illusionary mansions

Wires turn to cobwebs
I tread out carefully
Selectively sharing skin
Letting compulsions be

Venom continues to pour from uneducated lips
But when lights turn down low judgement cannot anchor my hips

Take a Step

I release the weight of alien expectations Take a step forward unaware of presentation Wondering if the ground and I will meet before the ocean Lonely guarantees in the certainty of motion Truth falls easily from chapped lips Droplets of Schrödinger’s poison A reinforced dam with a sturdy gate

A bird with a broken wing

I want to write a poem for you But you don’t really let people in So I can only write for the father I’ve had Not the one you wish you had been Deep beneath the skin of a man little boy cries frozen in time For a

Never Heard

While you were frozen solid I was falling on my face When I offered you a hand My progress was displaced In the face of your suffering I prefer to walk alone Rather than cut off pieces Trying to keep you whole All the darkness I witnessed Contrasted by beams

Sunshine

Brown eyes brighter than the sun I saw the world through yours before I ever grew my own Strong hands forged in fire and stone You stood stalwart between my light and the unknown Sour words that stung in my youth Turned bitter after half a decade apart Lemonade sweetened

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Take a Step

A bird with a broken wing

Never Heard

Sunshine