De Profundis -

This is my life

This broken fence

This grey and fractured

Spiralling spike in my side

The splinter in my side

The splinter in my dreams

Too real, too real

Hollowed whole

Lightning-struck and smoking

The trauma of I

The danger of being, and feeling, and seeing

I’m fighting time

I can’t explain

I’m torn apart by

My compulsion to destroy

I’m splintering inside

It’s too real, too real

Hollowed whole

Lightning-struck and smoking

The trauma of I

The danger of being, and feeling, and seeing

I live where I stand

For tomorrow I die

I’m open now, the wound may heal

I smile inside in spite of me

I try in vain to redefine

The worn and ancient part of me