Poem to be Read Aloud

Hours later I tore like sinew

I have made a fool of myself

Left bashful, in the anvil clouds

Revolving around everyone else

I'm fading into the background

Fading like zine stickers

It's shepherd-serious

Thoughts are clashing

In my productive mind

You can't help what the sclera thinks

It's inevitable, it's natural

I had to grow a backbone

The beacon is a blaze

Something I had to abrogate

I've been bent out of shape                                                                                           

Following the mandate                                                                                                       

Spent days going back and forth                                                                                         

Like inconstant television colours                                                                                                   

I glitter like the eye of the tiger                                                                                           

Holding onto a vendetta                                                                                                       

Like a champion

Yarn has been yielded

Down dark streets with wild fantasies

Standing like an apse, before the corollary

I am an emergency

In tumbledown towns

There's a fellowship between the mountains

Earthworms with unique mannerisms

I am human                                                                                 

I cry and I sweat and I bleed, I breathe                                                                                             

I am human                                                                                                               

As human as you can be                                                                                                               

I cry and I sweat and I bleed, I breathe                                 

I am human                                                                                 

As human as you can be.