Poetry Unraveled

Stained Dove

Brought up through a nuclear explosion.
Lip syncing the radioactive waves that spew out of the boom box of the past.
Eyes inked with scarlet.
Veins running thick with toxity.
Bruises and battle scars of an artist that lurks in the shadows of her mind.
She dances to the romance of the drink.
A poison brewed with depression and venomous disdain.
She rebutes with her personal demons.
Perspective of life shot down with an arrowhead of agony.
She seeks a way out.
Tired of barbed wire that wraps around her heart, she breaks loose.
This once stained dove, purifies herself and flies free.

Photo By: K.L. Howard