Crazy Concrete March 2015 | Page 25

For  My  City     My  bedroom  looks  like  a  war  zone,   Where  I  keep  my  inner  battles   Locked  up  in  dusty  corners.     Walls  are  my  witnesses,   The  negative  spaces  between   Cheap  paintings  hold  shadows  hostage.     Shapes  are  brought  to  life,     Haunting  me  with     Their  blank  stares     As  sweat  forms  on  the  window     Above  my  radiator.     My  clothes  are  strewn  across     The  room,   Like  souls  without  bodies.   My  skin  cells  are  in  every  speck     On  my  floor,   Shed  after  scratching  my  arms,   After  just  existing.     Just  existing  is  so  messy.     The  empty  cans  on  my  desk   Look  aggressive.     They  are  crushed  like  Picasso’s  portraits.     They  remind  me  of  what   I  drank  to  forget.       My  sheets  know  that  I  cry   When  buried  inside,   Entombed  in  their  warmth,     Embalmed  with  my  tears.     I  take  sleeping  pills