Does Everything Want To Hurt Me?
Date unknown ('90s?)


The blinding sun
The tiring work
The struggling sleep
The frightening nightmares
The cursing pain
The late-again
The not-arrived
The never-will

The drenching rain
The hunger pains
The biting teeth
Of the barking dog
The broken glass
Under my aching feet
The stinging cut
From a broken cup

The angry mob
The vicious slob
The drunken fool
The over-cool
The stealing thief
The robbing cheat
The high-on-drugs
The faulty plug
The open wire
The leaking roof

The unfair cop
The brutal knock
The judge and jury
The details gory
The prison cell
The urine smell

The black of night
The sound of silence
The ice-cold draught
The ones who laughed
The failed dreams
The screams, the screams
The out-of-stock
The out-of-luck
The can't-afford-it
The lies and the shit
The poisonous pill
The lethal cocktail
The relationships
That never set sail

The headaches
The stomachaches
The backaches
The my-whole-body-aches

The days off sick
Too ill to eat
The bleeding wounds
The sweating heat

Does everything want to hurt me?
Or is it just me?
The falling tree
Disease
Freezing
Boiling
Damp
Wet
Shallow
Too deep
Too high
Too wide
Too long
Too low
Now nothing
Zero
Space
Emptiness
Complete
Bright light
Too bright
White
Now darkness
No sight
Black
Nothing
No sound
No smell
No feelings at all

Where am I?
Who am I?
Who have I been?
For I am not me anymore
I am nowhere
I am nothing
I am dead.


Poetry © Christopher Hester 2010
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