PUZZLED (SHATTERED)
On March 27, 2013
by KEITH
The impacted hand shattered like glass with
the loud crunching sound of a potato chip
with the wild static pain sent through the
nerves sending a frenzy of spasms evenly through the
whole arm
his eyes swallowed by tears but are held back like
the Hoover Dam
His heart pulsating as that of a rabid rabbit feeding on
a fleeing carrot
With the mind engulfed in rage as a saber tooth
tiger in a tar pit
Blood tackling the floor with a loud echo like a
jackhammer’s banging voice pierces his ear
The animalistic instinct drives his porcelain-like hand
into the remorseless apparatus
By the cause of a heartless father who bruises him
the eye’s dam shatters
For the sixteen-year-old is really a fragile five-year-old
though his breakdown shows
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