Inkpaw

friendship
like a four leafed clover
something i stopped searching for 
around the age of seven
you simply smiled
and acknowledged my existence
but it made me feel a thousand times better
so
thank you

like the grass and the sky 
wide open doors
and freedom of the best kind
you and i 
running beyond the judgement 
of eyes hateful 
for no good reason 
sea glass refracting 

caged
like the heart 
beating against the inside of it's fleshy prison 
bars made of bone
rusted from the nothingness
peering through glass
reminiscing 
but past
is the day full of light

Light fades
From fear clouded eyes
As news disconcerting 
Reaches saddened ears
And broken lay
The fallen tears
Open the barren ground. 

Dead and gone 
Are father and son

I don't know.
I don't know what to say 
I'm not sure how I'm supposed to do this 
I don't know
And it's the most miserable thing
I can't even talk to my own mum 
About what's wrong

stars twisted 
in verse
around my fingers 
as I dance
among the flames of emotion 
tears falling 
dripping 
into a puddle 
a vast 
and stormy ocean 
i dive into the waves