Boarding School Survivors

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

They forget themselves
or never knew
insatiable swindlers
of the world whose
hearts bent out so far
they could murder a child
starting with their own.
How else could you
light the fuse?
If you always drive
forward & never reflect
the heart is severed
the roots cut off.
All that’s left is a
headless corpse
lost & wandering
simply wanting to do
the same
to everybody else.

Copyright Simon Heathcote