Glass Mind

transparent and caught

within my mind 

human livestock graze

they know not better

and I know not at all

they sow for fruitful

destruction.

I am vulnerable to their steps

they drown my cries

all throughout the night

the foghorn sounds

it tapes me down

to the sinkhole

of despair.

- By Laila Ali Haid

Breakthrough

I float midway and sit
in obedience
to the ever-longing screw-with-yer-mind
-ers
they cannibalize,
stuff down,
yer vital bits.
treat you like pic n mix.
you are 'living' in an air-balloon, so mediocre
through sheets of plastic hastily painted magenta
hot air is puked in every direction.


- By Laila Ali Haid