POEM STARTER
Submitted by Atlas
"I bite the hand that feeds me, so that maybe it'll let me starve"
Write a poem which includes this line.
Why Do You Heal Me?
My heart seems to beat despite the arrows piercing it’s middle
Am I really still alive?
Or is this just a trick, the last seven minutes of life?
Why do you heal me when death is so easy?
I’ve lost all my feeling
Like a numb creature to be added
To a museum of rabid beings
I bite the hand that feeds me, so maybe it’ll let me starve
Why aren’t I flesh and bones yet?
I’m already disarmed
The blue skies and green fields were all a trick
There really is nothing here
The whole world is rotten, sick
So why are you keeping me here?
Why am I still in this foggy haze, when all I want to do is slip away?
Frozen, too far gone to recover
Rabid, broken, too far under
Throw me away, don’t bother to recycle
All parts replaced break, a repeating cycle
There’s nothing original left under my ceiling
Just the bones that once held me, when I felt like I was once a being
Why do you keep my lungs heaving?
When all I want to do is rest
Fight, there is no fight left
Unless it’s for my death