your cheeks sting from the poison
you’ve been holding in
the stories you tell yourself
are like sports medals
pushed to the drawer back
corroding in a tin
.
memories can distort the past
can corrupt today
remember memory is malleable
not a library gathering dust
you are not a man of steel
tears won’t make you rust
~
n.b. NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Ten prompt: Song + Contents of a drawer = poem. Song ‘Rust‘ by Echo and the Bunnymen. Drawer contents pictured.
~
CLP 10/04/2021
Voyage des Mots 
wonderfully evocative, effective imagery, poignant, beautifully written
Gold Star!
btw
Thank you, I will stick it to my fridge door!
I looked at the prompt and could not see its value – your clearly did. Nice work
Thank you, Anonymous. Its value was in the drawer, not the prompt, I feel. 🙏