The Ofi Press Magazine

By Jo Langton, UK (Published in Issue 16)

Jo Langton is currently studying her MA in Creative Writing at the University of Salford, Manchester. Her first chapbook entitled [fill the silence] was published by erbacce-press and can be found here: www.erbacce-press.com/#/jo-langton/4555536943. She has since had work published in 3AM Magazine, Streetcake, Bare Hands and The Railroad Poetry Project.

Enslaved

an experience of love leaves reasonable

[space for doubt]

i’m scared you’ll hurt me deep

down

my skin crawling

passionate ablaze / a measured slow grower

He loves me

[doubt the fact]

with a heartbeat too slow to catch.

Jumping

to conclusions to fill the

[space for doubt]

your creating

a confusion straightjacket

binding past protective second skin

perception fucking

pleading for an end to the fear & cloaked in fear of the end

crippling / occasional / who am i / kidding

[in escapable fact]