Littered and stained

Fettered and maimed

Stabbed of its own content

Coated with rust

And pain and lust

Strangled by words unspent.

Trapped within bars

Shattered to shards

Encased in waves of fright

Searching the seas

Desperately;

For the faintest trace of light.

Ever rebuked

By mute abuse

Ever tortured by guilt

Ever destined

To drown in sin

And weep over ink spilt.

Forced to throw up

Between hiccups

Letters and words and rhymes

Bludgeoned by fate

Smothered by hate

Behold the writer's mind.