Flailing against shadows
Ghosts of transgressions
reached under the ribs
into the heart

Haunting every move
With arsenic history laying shroud of fog
obscuring logic
poisoning here/now.

Insecurity, desperation to defend/protect
it begs compassion
for someone unwilling to grow.
Choice defines you.

Choose to internalize a hurt
move through and forward
or fight the same demon
forever more.

The words, the speech, the rhetoric
weighed against the behavior, the action
its disconnected, antithetical
so lost, so confident in the confusion.

Defend a wound that wont heal?
– be responsible.
Know its a statement of
who and where you are.

Get a map. Find a way.