I come from, by Luke Carey-Chorlton
I come from the age of sixteen
situated, on old shooters hill road
where nothing seems to be quite perfect, pristine
cigarette butt ends that corrode in time, or grow, in gutter streams
Dilapidated pavements and chewing gum festering in the masses
I come from the sounds, sounds of syncopated trains
travelling station to station
the cheers, the screams, all from abysmal neighbourhood teens
present morning and night
I come from the iridescent amber hues of street lamps
the cracked pavements, and the dim lit underpass
the battering harshness of rain on windows, ten feet tall
a hollow ecstasy, a vulnerable transparency
realising, I’m quite alike what I gaze through, at a constant
a two toned reality, an unfathomable life of great duality
with one side, stoic, cold, the other, warm, loving
personalities, on two separate polarities
the best kind of difference
I come from being; a pale, male, always to flail about,
maybe I’m growing stale, boring
A mind in constant contemplation, see
I come from the age of 16
the age of; ambiguity, exams, stress, coming of age