Life’s Little Misdirections 🥀🦋

Internalized Unexamined

"There's no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." --Maya Angelou

and it won’t be told
today
agony snowballing
in gut
knows the void
expressed
and never understood
story isn’t truth
retold
no words capture
this void
shaded by elms
cooled
hovering above roofs
untethered
ghosting your walls
Impenetrable
feint horizontal flecks
unwitnessed

it won’t ever be told
to a soul
risk the misunderstanding
of black
illuminating only within
no suffering
inescapable
blanketed dark dreams
unfolding
refolding in cavern
just echoes
painted on a canvas
you pass
in narrow passage
between
two indifferent hearts

one bleeds
just, not for you


9.10.22

21 years tomorrow — a misdirect, I confess