A Poem a Day (179): Double exposure

Double exposure

Words walking on walls,

A crystallised cavorting

Of missing futures.

Have you been penalised

In this voiceless scourge?

A means to stone people.

And erase.

Humanity drips into leaves

Of ash, this free flutter

A kind of freedom.

Uncensored.

They say words maketh

The man, just as they take away

To zero.

Stones wait to be thrown,

Pressure point exploded.

In a study of a reckoning

They add clutter to old stories.

Words bloat

Til they bleed out

Into something unrecognisable

For the mass to hide behind.

An erasure poem from Double exposure

Words walk, missing

Futures penalised.

Voiceless stone, erase,

Humanity drips ash.

Flutter of freedom.

Words, man, zero.

Stones exploded

Clutter an old story,

Bloat, bleed,

Unrecognisable.

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, June 16, 2020