Powerless for my own good

Eat

It is for your own good

Because we care

That is love

Where

pleasure and pain

intersect,

past and present

twist

A confused

echo

unspoken

It does not hurt

It is for your own good

Because I care

I love you

His scrawl across my mind

Trapped

threat

hammered in

Unforgotten

Who can forget

Powerless

Out of control

Captured

dead centre of

a marble rolled

by larger hands

Mine nightmare bound

in dark love-flooded

Devouring

Never safe

For good?

Frozen

beyond time,

dehumanised,

a child of tin

hammered flat

on an intersectioned love road

where

pleasure and pain meet

and aged words

echo

finger imprinted wrists

Words restraining

beyond skin deep

for my own good

For my own good

eat

a scrawl not his

Other words

untwisting time,

smothering echoes

New words which

peel fingers from

bruised skin,

balm

wounds unseen and deep,

thaw frozen

A narrative which does not control,

does no harm  

Love re-written

Eat