Written By: Paul Tristram
… Inner Demons
Prison Warden-ing
your Outer World
… I watched you
nail your own foot
to the floor…
before
calling for Help.
Lying about
the Underlying
… Resentment
is not Acceptance.
I’m only
‘Triggering You’
because you’re here
… my Advice
will not help you…
you’re looking
for Sympathy
not Encouragement
… Excusing
not Explaining…
wanting me to see it
‘Your Way’
… when ‘Your Way’
is obviously Broken.
Paul Tristram is a Welsh writer who has poems, short stories and flash fiction included in many publications around the world. He yearns to tattoo porcelain bridesmaids instead of digging empty graves for innocence at midnight; this too may pass, yet. His novel “Crazy Like Emotion”, collection of shorter fiction “Kicking Back Drunk ‘Round The Candletree Graves”, full-length poetry collections “The Dark Side Of British Poetry”, "It Is Big & It Is Clever", “South Wales Outlaw”, “Uncivil Disobedience Is My Forte” and “The Gutter Symposium” are all available by Close To The Bone Publishing & Hunsbury Press.
https://paultristram.blogspot.com/