Introducing a new series of poems by Julian Matthews. Julian is a writer and Pushcart-nominated poet published in The American Journal of Poetry, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Borderless Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Dream Catcher Magazine, Live Encounters Magazine, Lothlorien Poetry Journal and The New Verse News, among others. He is a mixed-race minority from Malaysia and lived in Ipoh for seven years. Currently based in Petaling Jaya, he is a media trainer and consultant for senior management of multinationals on Effective Media Relations, Social Media and Crisis Communications. He was formerly a journalist with The Star and Nikkei Business Publications Inc
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By Julian Matthews
That night you cracked open,
all gooey and transparent,
mellow as pastel tangerine.
Your fragile ego, intense yet
delicate, was always there,
just beneath the surface
– but this time only for me.
I listened and processed,
felt blessed that you shared
your inner child, unhealed self,
the discontent shelled back
all these years.
Alas, you finally came undone,
raw, vulnerable, affecting.
There was nothing in my power
to reconstitute, coalesce, glue
your broken bits together again.
Or put you back high up on
that imaginary pedestal.
I had no fix to your emo-dump.
You were, in a sense, royally
screwed, Humpty.
This yolk is on me.
First published in “Words on the Wire 2” anthology of the Chapter One writers group, edited by Sue Hill and Bob Walton of The Write Box and Super Culture, Britain.
