The Abyss

* Warning!  Highly sensitive & possibly trigger inducing material.  Please read with caution.*      These are my pieces…      You probably don’t know me or - if you do - know  it occurred.  It really won’t matter because you wouldn’t even recognize my face, anyway (seeing how it’s splattered all across the rails and rocks.)      All most of you saw was what you wanted to see.  You couldn’t seem to see past the end of your nose.  I reached out to you, yet you were ashamed to be near me.  You called me psychotic,       worthless,            the dregs of society.        You told me to pick myself up “by the bootstraps!”   …if only it were that easy…        I sought out anything to numb the pain of my own self-loathing.  Then, I was hated for that destructive vice which I succumbed to; and that made me hate m...

📸:  Morris Fenklestein  https://pixels.com/featured/red-tailed-hawk-in-flight-with-snake-morris-finkelstein.html   Sam the snake slithered pass a shrub Twisting his tongue seeking tasty grub Betty the butterfly bounced ebulliently by Elegant; enchanting, she caught Sam’s eye “Such a sight!” Sam was mesmerized   “Freely flipping & flapping!” Sam fantasized “What wonder t’would be to sweetly soar! Departed from dirt and so much more!” Henry the hawk hovered above that snake Dashing & darting; engaged to overtake Clinching the catch - perching up high ‘Twas the day Sam took to the sky