24th October 2020

Restraining order

Put truth in a matchbox and tie it up
With string. Oversimplified, fried within
An inch of its half-baked half-life.
Held hostage behind flimsy cardboard walls.

Militant wardens of language on patrol
Seek to control, trim, tidy frayed edges
Until singed sense makes sense. Trapped
Neatly and contained, anomalies explained.

Quick, we’re expiring - no time to find
Room to expand past the limit of space
Predefined. Meaning measured meanly,
Air squeezed out, questions drowned
Bound, like a starfish in a straitjacket.