Life

This horrible mess of a life,
seeping through sieves of pain,
collected in sponges of anger,
and washed to shore through attempts of vulgar antagonism.

Filings of steel-like ego,
shreds of fabric love torn by the scissors of futility,
scorned by friends, family, and personal feelings,
given no chance to have freedom.

Wings unfurl as emotions billow through the soul,
in wisps like smoke,
shot down by others,
and left to crash and burn.