Trash of gold

sorenbarrett

Protruding trash from a heap of memories past

thoughts cut to the bone on fragments of mental debris

spits clots, from a wound whose bleeding will ever last

once buried now exposed its sharpness I did not see

 

Shards of buried pain excavated from the brain

Silent screaming through teeth with repair protracted

A urinal mind drain has a yellow stain

blood of gold with cyanide extracted

  • Author: sorenbarrett (Offline Offline)
  • Published: April 6th, 2024 04:43
  • Comment from author about the poem: cyanide is often used in the extraction of gold from ore
  • Category: Unclassified
  • Views: 11
  • Users favorite of this poem: Teddy.15, Bella Shepard.
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Comments5

  • 2781

    Fire is also used.

    • sorenbarrett

      Yes the process of bashing, mashing, and hashing. Thanks for the review and comment.

    • Teddy.15

      Very powerful and this one I could almost smell. 🌹

      • sorenbarrett

        Thanks so much Teddy I'm glad that it was almost not the smell itself for the smell of a trash of thoughts is far worse or better than the smell of reality. Always glad to read your comments that are always valued.

      • orchidee

        Someone can have the cyanide (you know who) and I'll have the gold! lol. Not that she has to eat it.
        She gives me the bashing, etc, every day!

        • sorenbarrett

          Yea Orchi I'm with you. To get that gold, I'm not so sure I want to be bashed and mashed although I'll take the hash. Thanks for the read my friend

        • Bella Shepard

          I suppose we've taken a natural element and compounded it, for better or worse, to achieve our economic goals, and our environment suffers. It's what we do. Chilling, such a great write my friend!

          • sorenbarrett

            Thanks so much Bella for the read and your comment I so enjoy your visits and words. I would like to hear more of your wonderful poems.

          • Goldfinch60

            Many tears ago in the UK a ship was in trouble and cans of cyanide it was carrying washed up on the shore. In an interview a doctor was asked "What are the symptoms of cyanide poisoning" His reply was "Death!"

            • sorenbarrett

              Thanks Andy for the read and the comment. Yea I have heard that it is relatively quick but still not a pleasant way to go.



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