Deep Red – Written Monday 11th December 2023 (Aged 48)

Deep Red

certain words and phrase have stuck with me
like the deep red embarrassment
of who i used to be
to be truthful,
i never saw my own lack of development as a problem
i thought i would…
well, you know, learn as i went along
then,
when i sabotaged aspects of my life
i began to see that toxicity was not so fun
now,
i look back at life that all at once resembles…
a battlefield…
a paradise…
an ocean escape….
a listless underworld…
and a broken plane…
and parts of it are coated in a colour
one which looks like the deep red of embarrassment
but certain words and phrases have stuck with me
they have seeped into me
and they have informed who i want to be

James Garratt – Monday 11th December 2023


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