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Diamonds and Fists

   
   
You don't have to say a word,  
I can tell by the twitch in your neck  
and twisted lips  
that you're going to love  
hating me.  
   
   
Staring at your blurred figure  
framed in the bathroom doorway,  
your overbearing gaze  
casting me  
into the Black Hole of Calcutta.  
Clenched fists  
holding your head between the bars  
singing me another bloody lullaby.  
   
   
I feel your anger  
screaming down  
my cheekbones like razorblades  
with furious splendour of an old flame,  
licking  
my diamond encrusted knuckles.  
   
   
Your shattered reflections,  
a hundred little jagged eyes  
watching you lean back  
against the door jamb,  
shaking your fucking head.  
   
   
My demented little dashboard monkey  
riding me  
back to hell.  
   
   
The sound of glass under foot  
and splinters ricocheting  
into the basin and onto the tiled floor,  
echoes deep within the gaping crater
smashed into the medicine cabinet door.  
Damp air from the wall cavity,  
wheezing  
like a hole in my lung.  
   
   
The pills rattle  
in my head,  
looking for the bullseye  
and you're standing there  
counting down  
from ten  
two  
one  
   
   
Diamond dust awash in cold blood  
swirling down the drain.  
There's a body on the floor  
and I deny everything.  
   
   
   
   
   
This poem was written for the  "how do you feel?" comp, which required poets to "Write about how you feel on any subject..."  
   
Subject: I thought about "diamond encrusted knuckles" and then I just wrote around the line.
Written by case28 (Alexander Case)
Published | Edited 28th Oct 2014
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