Jeff's Poetry

damnation

April 21, 2026 · Spirit

wavering courage falters, a weakness found - prod, poke till the resistance waves, breaks when the pummels of heavy fist non stop lead to breakage. the driver's seat gets usurped, and who goes there? a face well known, from a long time ago. prod, poke the boy collapses on the ground with torment, anguish, wails and whips as the boogeyman unravels the mind, turns love ones to nemesis, turns hope to decay - my cute bunny got her back broken by the unruly neighbor. mother locks me up in the store room, completely dark, then dies. the doctors said it was stress, turned out to be cancer - i don't remember anything happening to those doctors who failed in their job. the pendulum swings, i must not forget. and every little wrinkle becomes another catastrophe, who goes there? and found myself speaking to desolation, my echoes came back multifold. a sneeze, a cough, a typo, a misremembered memory: altered reality pokes, crushes resistance, relentless onslaught till a walk, a breath, lunch time becomes torment, misguided by a driver's face and he looks like mom. why didn't you help me? and then i the car went at high speed towards a cliff: control, control i kept repeating but i was not in control. press do breaks, do something, and tried to pry apart the hands wrapped around those wheels. i don't want to go there. found inertia, speed limit gone past, what is it going to be this time? i could hear his words, from his mind - mocking. i tried to stop my racing thoughts, not again; and he smiled like my rabbit shrieked, warped creature caressed my face. don't worry, it would all be over soon. the waves rushed to the walls, my walls - stop, stop. they went on, they attacked, they were many hands, many tendrils, many heart shifters, mind readers altering. and i stared into the mirror, found a driver's face not mine grinning. soon he said. what could go wrong? Everything. and that is when the car fell over the cliff, the waves rushing up to embrace.

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