Biography

one by one

leaves fall open

revealing a story

of impulse and regret…

history repeats

what a cliché!

how true.

repetitions interminable.

woman – doormat

individual – social

truism – untrue

clinging,

desperate grip

to the edge of self.

lacerated, bleeding fingers

refusing to let go…

to drown in comfortable

blackness.

tussle, ongoing, forever.

knowing sin

as i commit…

not vindication, extenuation.

shape up!
oft heard, oft said

oftener ignored

finding cruel pleasure

in undoing every stitch

of reconstructed self.

re-opening

scabbed-over wounds.

futile attempts

at claiming identity

mistaken, misguided, mis-lived