The Traveller

Contributor: Paul Tristram

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I am just travelling through
I play no real part.
Stepped in through the wrong door
making my way back to start.
Zigzagging down the straight and narrow
placing sanity on the line.
Hoping the next few adventures
will lead me out into sunshine.
Dancing with the Devil
whistling at the Pied-Piper.
Replacing the people who care
with fork-tongued vipers.
Hiding away my innocence
as far from me as I can.
If you’re my worst enemy
well then, I’m your biggest fan.
so you don’t have to shout and question
to confuse my weary brain.
Save your breath, don’t bother me
for this Traveller’s already insane.


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Paul Tristram is a Welsh writer who has poems, short stories and sketches published in many publications around the world, he yearns to tattoo porcelain bridesmaids instead of digging empty graves for innocence at midnight, this too may pass, yet.