I'm a failure. I'm pretty much bad at everything, including the things I'm supposed to be good at, or claim to be. My mom thinks I'm weird, my dad likes me I guess, I'm bad at school, I can't do math, I'm only 5feet tall, I'm forgetful, I walk into things, I can't play guitar. The list is pretty much endless. The good news: failure is relative. I don't have to be a failure in my own eyes just because I am in the eyes of someone else. The other good news: everything is temporary.
So, supposedly, I'm not too shabby with the poetry. The strange thing about poetry is that someone could classify a poem as horrific, while another person could think its remarkable. It's the beauty of the art world. In order to prove this, here is a poem that I think is pretty smoking hot but you might think is awful. 'One man's trash is another man's treasure' as they say.
Rosie
Killed Johnny
There is a white hot
sun,
Burning on your left
temple
Glistening under the
dusty lightbulb,
Above our heads.
I’m crying,
Icicles dripping down
steamy cheeks run hot with rage.
‘Stop Yelling’,
Heat hits my face and
my ribs are a cage to the beast behind them.
Red Talons,
Scraping tight black
cotton and I’m thrown into motion.
Tiny fists,
Clutching to a yellow
broom handle.
Hair falls over arms
over gritty floorboards and over you-
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