Where Are Them Batteries Poem by Lisa Knipe

I'm in a dark room & I can't see the light. I have a torch, but the batteries are dead, & the new ones are somewhere in the dark.

Where are them damn batteries?

My heart is thumping so hard and loud, I don't know what one is bigger, or is that my brain thinking this?

Where are them damn batteries?

People think it's okay to judge you over a picture, but you don't judge them over a picture.

Where are them damn batteries?

I'm sick of being hurt by people who claim to love me. I did apologise, you kept it going by still talking about it. Not everyone needs to know.

Where are them damn batteries?

Found them.

Wrong size.

Are these them? Yes.

Time to start leaving some people in the dark.