Waiting In Line

Claim me for your line

Set me out and let me shine

In the sameness there

I’ve found the heart to dare

To lead me to forget

The world in which we’re set

Where we reluctantly find

The secrets buried in mind



Your line will help me see

The victims standing in front of me

But standing there poisoning me

The future gone and deadly free

Show me their memory

Of being what we’ll never see

Wend away through the lack

And end up in the great black



Cross me, stay in line

If I lie then I’m fine

The courage we’ve found

Is all that keeps me bound

Like chains that bound me to the floor

These places and thoughts from before

See me burning in your shadow

Leave me there falling so



Set me up in your line

Point your gun and drink your wine

And when your finished bleed me dry

Bathe in sadness and watch me cry

The pain stained forever I’ll know

Watching you throw dirt on me down below

Bury me at your feet

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I wrote this poem with my best friend earlier this year back in January.

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ForeverLonely's picture

Good use of words, but a bit easy to lose my way in. I would try not to rhyme so much, and just let it flow. Could I suggest using some grammar to break it up, too?