Lindsay McLeod

Custody Kid

My self was in my pocket here 
seems I was right here all the time

I only thought I’d lost my self
the reason being I'm

an agent of immunity
a prisoner of their past

a feather in my flight
impatient in my body cast

forced into another's corset
become a hostage to their fight

wholly ransomed by the very ones 
that drew these laces tight

with my one foot firm in fairyland 
and the other far from home

while I watch the skies all darken
when the Furies start to swarm

who will drag me to the edge again
and tear apart my calm

lead me straight into temptation
where I'll be far from safe from harm.
 

Lindsay McLeod is a South Australian whose writing has found homes most recently with Ephemeral Elegies, The Human Writers, Tipton Poetry, the Martello, and Meniscus. Lindsay drives a forklift to support his poetry habit.