Look What You've Made of Me

By Brycen Gaines

Pages full of angst, a book to which everyone can relate, Brycen Gaines processes his most challenging life scenarios through the art of poetry. Stories of trials and tribulations through intersectionalities of race, class, sexuality, and mental illness, to name a few, fill the pages of this unique and telling poetry book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brycen Gaines
• Release date: Aug 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781087902289

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However it pains me.

However it bethralls me.

Lack lust,

Lack desire,

You pain me,

It pains me,

But there is not a thing that I can do about it.

Just wallow in it,

Tide in it,

Wade in it,

Time to tie up tied ends.

I want to lose myself within you.

Anyone will do actually,

The actual realization of my lonely self…

Who knew you?

I want to breathe you,

Like dew drops off a tree in a drought, I want to to drink you,

Envious me,

How unbecoming,

How ugly,

I redeem myself,

I make my wings out of sultry,

You are not mine,

Escape my thoughts,

Let me alone, Let me wallow in sloth,

Yet in my mind I still wait for you,

Foolish love,

You the obtainable,

You unobtrusive,

It is lackluster.

It is uncultured,

The thought of you maims me,

You envelop me,

How can I be consoled now?

When my soul is hollowed out and you are the hallowed now?

I seek you out,

Without a doubt you won’t respond,

Delusional