‘These Yellow Lies (eyes)’
By Maryam Nelson
These yellow eyes
That wander
Across time
What lies they tell
What dies
behind their veil
Every time the predator kills
This lonely heart is
Broken to bits
but injustice is hardly simple
When the murdered begin to murder
themselves
Nothing is clear
until it becomes so
and I am dying by my own hand
But do not see it
My eyes don’t tell
Their eyes cannot see in mine
What is so clearly veiled
These yellow lies have forgotten
how to tell time
But Time itself sheds tears for the eyes that have forgotten how to
This poem has No name
by Maryam Nelson
a camera on a lifeboat whirs and shifts I became the camera when the
ship crashed I didn’t know how to put the pieces of myself back
together and so the camera helps them to keep afloat While
simultaneously pulling me under
(Our ways of coping end up killing us)
But it’s their lens that killed
such a fragile thing
in the first place
a girl dies
but everyone on the shore only cares about saving the flesh while her
soul drowned at sea
(Her ways of coping drowned her further)
They pushed and she pulled herself under It was their cracked eyes
that became her camera and the whirring caused the pieces to shift
Further apart Her heart adrift Her lifeboat by the day, clicking out
to sea (see)