System Shut Down

You injected me with your piercing glance 

Distracting me with your bright smile that resemble heaven’s gate opening

Filling me up with a deadly contagious disease of an emotion that envy’s love

Because it is false 

Tricking girls into signing away their heart

To be subjected to the cruel immaturity of young boys

You flow through my bloodstream

Bringing deficiencies to my body

Blocking my arteries  

You’re that 2 pound Angus beef burger with greasy slabs of bacon and cheese in the company of a Krispy Kreme donut that lies beneath and sits on top

I’m going to have a heart attack 

When I see you I’m nervous

All brain cells stop squirming in my head

You’ve run wild with scissors in my system

Cutting wires disconnecting the network of my neurons

Signals will not transmit 

The feeling of my limbs were disintegrated at the moment of our first greeting between our lips

All sense turned upside down and rushed to my face

My knees trembled like they were running away

Yet I clearly was standing somewhat strong in front of you

We go together like lung cancer and nicotine

You collapse my respiratory

When I inhale your scent it passes through my nasal passage

Heating me up

Filtering the love from lust

Then entering the back of my throat

Where my words are clogged from hidden expression

I can’t breath 

You’ve torn down my wall of securities just to bring insecurities

I’m not immune to love nor am I immune to the cruel immaturity of young boys

All of me is open

I stood in the middle of nothing with my arms wide open

As I watched you take long slow strides that corresponds with the beating of my heart

I could’ve sworn that time had frozen and would start back up at the clash of our embrace

But I wondered where you were going when you walked into my peripheral

Turn to see you injecting her

All systems down

Set off the sirens of panic

Close the valves that hold back my tears

And remove my arms from restraining in the air awaiting your return

Shut all systems down

I’ve been protruded by a deadly contagious virus that has contained a new host

Hoping she will have continuous heart attacks

Develop bad nerves

Become suffocated by her quiet nature

May you please travel to my stomach that will by force be rejected and leave out my digestive

Now all systems go

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