The Road To Koh Phangan Poem by Graham Leese

Your miscalculations precede you,
bright and colourful sashes twist
and twirl ‘round like barbed wire
wrapped ‘round a true love.

Perhaps my own misconceptions
shroud skin, ego sliced into
a thousand invisible bandages.
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Look beneath the surface,
detached from insecurity
and you will find cries
wrapped in ambiguity.
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Research foreign phrases.
Pick apart the words.
Help me.
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Alone
Surrounded
By voices,
Family,
Missed calls,
Strangers at the door,
Slipping into madness,
Splitting into two.
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When I close my eyes
the moving sea of dull static
reveals a black little worm
paralysed by half sleep
it crawls past my sockets
into my ear.
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free from drink,
nights out, drugs and sex;
the stench of disgust is more
then you could ever imagine.
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sometimes when I listen
to your heartbeat
I can hear the ocean.
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abandoned
I am left to my own
irrational territories
while you lead a normal life.