
drown you.in the year of the dragon, i wasdrown you. by ~doctorgalloway
certain i would retain blessings
from time before
but i was quick to learn of
the cruel twists fate offers
those of hope and dreaming
one hand led me to another
and one wasn't so kind
drips of lies,
coffee & cigarettes,
DUIs and funerals for three rat kings
for six months i carried a
child of silence
and when it came early,
death reaped a child of solitude
a hermit built by the gods
to bear unimaginable guilt
at little to no cost to them
distractions are unintentional
keeping busy won't do
and the emaciated siren cries
when ghosts from her past haunt her
yet upon the snakes year
there is