Sunday, August 17, 2025

The Oblique of the Invisible Bruise

 




My body is wrought with bruises, 

  The pain and undertone when touched 

Yet no purple marks or blue, 

  Shown on my skin as such. 

  Could it be the despair? 

    Dehydration? 

  Starvation? 

Feels just like a bruise. An injury bumped against 

  the wrong stool...

Yet no exchange happened

  and there's zero black or blue. 


Just pains in my calf, 

  and now I feel it in my ankle too. 

Checking myself all over, 

  I find another one or two. 


Could it be? Just the Despair? 

  Or is it the 

Failing of my body and hue. 


I once was bright upon a time

  Now...


Just a shriveling shrew. 








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