# Black Dog Escapism

Author: Dakaar
Tags: Poetry

Freeform poetry from the introspective collection, Black Dog, that runs with a folkloric figure that is often associated with misfortune and used as a metaphor for depression. Black Dog looks at this figure and gives him a voice, letting him bark back at a society that's already made up its mind about him.

He's a getaway vehicle

 

tethered at the curb

 

loaded

 

chambered

 

on someone else's word

 

sidelined spectator 

 

a non-participant 

 

to the greatest heist in history

 

watching them be wolves

 

and run circles round the herd until

 

they tire of the sport

 

and break away

 

and set sights on somewhere new

 

anywhere

 

away from here.

 

The where

 

the how

 

is the Black Dog's problem now

 

all they know

 

is he's not going fast enough.

 

The Black Dog, chafed from the ride,

 

dreams of sitting his backside down in the dirt

 

of rolling

 

rubbing grass stains on their clean escape

 

kicking the itch until it's dislodged.

 

But they hold up a magnet

 

to his moral compass

 

leaving him at the helm

 

of someone else's life.

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/rnaQ7aNn
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