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WALLS.

June 15, 2021
By Anonymous

You’d think that my:

Thirst can never be quenched the way I’m always drinking,

I look for happiness at the bottom of the bottle labelled wishful thinking, 

If pain was a stench this room would be reeking,

         Walls: hanging on by a thread

            Me: relating, they’re my friends

But unlike them if I crumble there’s no Bob the Builder, 

Waiting to sew each piece, applying cement

No, "Can we fix it?" because no we can’t.


You see, like these walls I am an obstruction

You can hang your little distractions on my arms 

Deal with your rage and bouts of compulsion, aversions

I am your punching bag

The pile of rubble that’s nothing but trouble

Throw plates and glasses at me, it’s my job to break them isn’t it?


No one sees my cracks and dents, 

Paint over them, good as new, ain’t no one that can tell

That I am the same broken wall 

Because if I shine, I am not broken at all


You'd think that me and these walls, we can never be the same

I’m a product of luck while they’re a calculated science

I roam this world free while they have no room for defiance, 

Bound to the ground in silent compliance 

Nonetheless, my freedom has me trapped between four titanium walls

Begging, "I just need a little crack" 

A little room for the air to escape 

 

The pressure is too much, I feel the walls break.


The author's comments:

i was inspired to write this piece because i don't truly believe that we are as free as we'd like to think we are. sure we're controlled by laws and everything, but we're also subconsciously trapped in our own minds, whether we realise it or not. this poem highliights how that feels, that loneliness that accomapnies it, and how fate has it that we don't all make it out alive, and sometimes our cracks make us break.


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