FORGED
Given a name
but robbed
of a life.
Pushed to far
to form
an imagined face,
and lose all touch
with reality.
Living
as an oddity;
the untouchable
exhibit.
Random lovers
taken
to feel human
contact,
varied pills
swallowed
to feel
alive again.
Dying
as an oddity;
the witnessed
exhibition.
Forced to be
an image
to buy and sell,
and lose all sense
of self.
Given a name
but robbed
of a life.

05/09/04