Broken Hearts and Wretched Highs

Crushed inside
the tears of prostitutes
Ladies with promise
fallen on broken hearts
and wretched highs

“We are more than this.
We are not cockroaches
with needles in bruised thighs.”

Tragic ends
too often come
do not break the façade
of obnoxious stereotype

and there are the women who reach out to figures
in the hope of hearts that beat humane
drawn in by calm exteriors with eyes
that reveal passive savages
tearing them apart with ignorance
before they leave their souls to ravage

and it makes me wish
more urban fairy stories
would come true
just like in Taxi Driver.

• On Friday, September 26, 2008, disposable (161) wrote:
  
  loved this! all i can say...stunned to silence i suppose. ;0)
  
  
• On Friday, September 26, 2008, blue (1606) wrote:
  
  what a 'bickle' to be sure. o.O)) rawr.
  
  
• On Thursday, September 25, 2008, Lylani (146) wrote:
  
  Wow, this is a really intense piece - awesome!