Strewn With Sorrow

I’ve blocked my ears from the whole world

Bringing me only disappointment, debilitating and dumb

Feelings

Not comparable to anything else

Whilst rain is ponderously pattering on the pavement

On the things left in darkness with the accuracy

Of a lab technician

Who knows how to kill for the memories

Bringing them back from the gutter

And shedding a new

Light

From reflector pointing the stars

As bright as they can appear

To deny them a return to the dark ages of ignorance

During the reign of a divergent sovereign

Among us

When there was no enmity

On the island separating me from it constantly

And challenging my future

For a better acknowledgment within

With me refusing to be beaten, bruised, and begged

To satisfy someone else’s ignominy

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20 May 2021

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