Shattered Glass

By Luis Porraz

Once the damage is done, I cannot revert the hurt

It lurks like dirt particles, how do I show myself

When I am insecure with cracks like webs

Connecting each memory of that moment

The creation of existence, the beginning of time... For me

Was my birth a wormhole, a portal to another dimension

Why do feel like I don't belong? Not just on earth but in myself

Was there a break in life, a shift in the paradigm of mine

Maybe it just my vision through shattered glass

 

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By Luis Porraz

 

The cracks remain, remnants of what cannot be forgotten

Scarred fragments of memories, in which flash and strike like lightning

Burning holes, turning wholes into nothing but ashes

A fragile shell, a void fading in and out of reality,

With each step closer to it's demise

Trying to grasp the concept of existence, a reason, a purpose!

All maintained as encrypted data,

With an impenetrable firewall that cannot be undone

What is to become of this thing!

Every word it pukes cries out for help! Except that word itself

It wishes to be yet it cannot see that it has always been a he