A Cost of Loyalty
A poem about betrayal
Feb 1, 2023
A sudden jerk, wrenched from the clouds.
Warm familiarity now an icy wind;
pierced through you, humiliated, naked,
pinned.
A smile evaporates to a ghastly precipitate.
You’re frozen.
A bad taste, left behind.
Mutilating memories, intertwined.
Searing pain.
Transfixed. Limp limbs..
For what seemed once is now no more,
A valley of a deathly sore.
Bland greys where all colours once were.
Move on or stay, fixed to the floor?
Though a blow to the mind may shatter reality,
Don’t they always bring forth new…possibility?
