BURDEN OF PROOF.

the fire in me

fears

the gasoline in you.

for shall i burn

out

it will be self error.

tides of memory

changed

in your image.

i must 

accept

or face your truth

in a grand

jury

of those who came before.

before.

before.

before.

before wires and wishes

crossed

into unrecognizable faces.

times and events

different

within your say-so.

before who i

was

met who you saw.

before oral tale

found

ocular revision.

before who you could

trust

was who raised their voice first.

before the burden of 

proof

was in memories i no longer trusted.

Reviews

[ETERNITY]

I kinda feel this way about this entire site.
And I'm not accepting Friend Requests.
I was told this site will be gone within a year.
I'm not communicating with anyone.
I deleted all my friends.
Just writing with NO GOALS is all I do now.
I have a BLOGGER so that will sustain me...It's UNLIMITED.

[Emunah June.]

Honestly, I am right there with you. I got blocked the other day by someone whos company I really enjoyed and tbh it threw me off. Im currently looking for a new website to move my writing to, but Im not sure what works.

[Mysilentembrace]

I really love your word choice here and the ways in which you play with those words. Things like wires and wishes and the visual it creates of crossing wires and that idea of hope before it was lost. This has some power and punch. The repetition of the word before was a beautiful play as it created this echo effect as if you were being taken back in time like in those old 90s films when they’d flash you back. I enjoyed that. There is just so much beauty and word choice in the image you’re painting of this potentially abusive relationship and the things that become lost as you lose yourself along the way. It feels like a poem about gaslighting and the ending line speaks the strongest.