Splinters - Frameworks

Time’s a new splinter

Buried deep in the opposable thumb

Finding new ways drive itself further

Making you feel grimly aware the more you touch

I keep thinking the body will reject it out

Find a new way to calcify it down

Alternative means to grinding teeth

Loosely kept terms only here to

Make you feel more or less alive

Redefining what it means to survive

Times a conceptual straight jacket

Confining you to moments you wished to forget

I want a past and future to forget

To live and die, a

Stand-in-line instant validation

A few brief moments

A few pure moments of gold

Everything you didn’t notice made you what you are today

A foundation braced to break the backs

A product of everything you lacked

You stand up straight, poised and posed

Straight in line, splitter exposed

Wanting on a validation, or further inclination

That makes you feel better prepared