Beyond deceiving Better off Forgotten Untold fortunes Explosive circumstances Unfairly treated I’ve seen It all On a rusty platter Flashes in the pan Like fireworks They lack any true humor I relive the Slight hesitation That ringing in my ear The daylight I’ll never redeem What a consolation prize The darkness became Too afraid to Go outside Even open the front door So I just hid A cruelty Far to often seen Yet for some reason Never seems to conclude They said Jump and you Said how high Clueless depictions Wound up Tightly and spring loaded Then they went boom Absolute clarity Absorbing All the blows Bullies and passer byes They did me no favors Stitch me up nice and clean And throw them outta My playground Contagious swells Swept across My oceans my boats continually sank To thee bottoms of thee abyss Prairies like wildfires The paragraphs Sketched deeply In my being Flowers hovering over my memories Have fallen on My grave already Get me off this merry go round now I’ve been around these circles Long enough