restraint

by firecracker

Posted to Action Poetry on 2002-09-03 19:35:00

Parent message is 275715
i’m asking you
to hold me down:
i feel the need to be
quiet tonight.
thoughts pour through this
confusion –
i am unable to speak.
kept silent
words fail me
and i am bound
tighter
lower
(hushed)
out of breath

i cannot stand
to look at myself again.