My poetry prompt for NaPoWriMo and Cheer Peppers is a mixed media painting that began as a flow painting but it ended up with these strange paint holes. After a year of holding onto the canvas I saw eyes peeking through and decided to pick it back up and finish it. Prints and shoes available for sale on Hastywords Art.

The voice doesn’t match the face

The movement is stop motion

The expectation is disturbing

And I can’t move, can’t breathe

You say my name as if it’s yours

And your skin like sandpaper

Slides down my back and arms

I close my mind to the hate

I see inside your liquid eyes

As you cut off all your scars

A tapestry of all your hurt

And lay them on my belly

Demanding the pain be mine