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Wounded

By Ryan Rahman
wounded

Illustration by Albert Nikhla

I am not a saint

merely,

A wilted plant,

acquiescent

Paralyzed by inaction

I am weary

Of your hurtful words

Which always end up feeling

Like knife wounds.

And I grow tired of being stabbed

the punctures, the piercings

Being left to bleed out while onlookers

Stare on with their pathetically blank gazes

For my ever-disintegrating armor

With all its shabbiness

Diminished and deteriorated

Can no longer take it.


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Posted On: February 20, 2023
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