Untitled Poem (caution tape)
And then you started hurting me Maybe it was something small, Or maybe it was something big. But it existed somewhere in my world And then you didn’t want to come in You didn’t mind the darkness When it was because of my parents Or a scar from an ex But when the black ink spilled out of your pen You didn’t want to come in I stuck to continents and oceans Still untouched But one by one they fell One mistake was all it took For the local wildlife to be untouchable For the water to be no good My world wrapped in caution tape You didn’t want to come in I carved out a piece up North Where I can sit in my tower and broadcast That I’m still alive I can receive messages and respond in kind But the local news has been turned off No boats or planes are operating My world is wrapped in caution tape And you don’t want to come in If a former Nazi foot soldier --just following orders-- Visited a holocaust museum Would he try to burn it down? Or would he collapse into a hea...