I Will Butcher Your Future


By Morney Wilson


I will butcher your future.

Not right now
no
not when you would hardly care
if I dare
to leave.

One day, though,
I will butcher your future.
It will not be pretty it
will not be the best day
you have had.

I understate it.

Now,
I am with you you are with me
even when you are not.

I am trapped.

We are the golden couple.
People pay to watch us live.
You like it. I cannot say
that I notice. I am too busy.
Too busy dodging the blows
too busy waiting for the next shot
too busy pretending this is real -
and cheating them into envy.

You are god now but
you will not stay that way forever.
Pitiful man, one day I will butcher your future.
My heart is hardening my skin itches
to push you away.

When you are looking the other way
the shot will ring out.

Bye bye.


Author's note
© Morney Wilson

I don't know what this poem is about.
morney@gmail.com

This poem has been requested 13 times since 13 April 2010
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