[ Broken - Ness] What I Need
by SELASIE BULMUO
What I need
No one can give
Not me, not you, not even them
Can fix this broken - ness
I need a cure
For this Dis-ease
Like none I have ever had
Human hands
Just won’t do
They cannot seem to mend
This spiralling break
This broken – ness
Inside my crumbling soul
Every touch I have ever had
Left me needy, oh so needy
Ah, this pain so overwhelming
Is more than a lick of paint can fix
It is a neverending shooting pain
A pulsating throb of painful jabs,
At my very Core, so broken up
Broken – Ness has made its stay here
Parchments of splinters
Pieces pieced together
With sticky messy glue
Which never holds long enough
For me to catch my breath
What I need? …. (sigh)
No. Not just a hug or fickle words?
This broken – ness so well disguised
With smiles, and colour and cheer
I cannot escape its gripping hands
They go beyond your touch
So if you see me cry out loud
Or yelp like a circling pet
Don’t think it so strange a thing
The mask has simply slipped
You got a glimpse inside
Don’t pat my head to soothe
Don’t give me useless words
Don’t mock my pieced up gait
As I tread on broken limbs
I need everything I have
Just to make it through today
What I need beyond myself
Is more than you can endure
Unfathomable, I am to you
This type, You’ve never seen
So broken, I am broken – ness
I need to be made whole again
A new frame for me
Not this overused broken pieces
I need to breathe
Devoid of pain
A breath of a new begining
I need an angel sent for me
I need those healing springs that save
So let me be with my broken-ness
Until my deliverer comes
