I spew all these words at you, releasing them from bonking around up in my noggin causing a ruckus.
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You wereA self-harmI laid next to. I poured youInto my coldGlass Heart forAnyone to see. — Your toxinsConvincedMy bodyThey wereMy own. — Your homeWas my bar. Low, filthy. I laidOn Your Bed DrunkOnYourWords. I tookYou ShotAfterShot. SoberOnly inName. —- You had a bite.Warm and acidic. I grewa TasteFor you, Lying to MyselfThat Each hitWas my […]
We exchanged lashes in riddles, like two pirates. One only trading in truth, and other only peddling in lies. While you drank your rum, I got my sea legs. I am the captain now.
I came back andMany of these oldstreets are different. Some of themgone — entirely. Others, dead ends I returned to,reminding mehow much The morethings changeThe more theystay the same. — When you cometo identify withAny pavement, You learn to livein the curvatureof others designs. You become gravel. Soft when laid.Hardened in time. Others oil stainsSplatter […]
I am forgetful. I lost my voice. Well, really it was shoved down my throat into my guts making thembubble and churn, moment by moment, day by day, Year by year. — Like, I also lost trackof the fists Shoved deepdown my throat. — I was no doctor. I was…patient. I listened while theytaught memy […]
I can’t help but notice I am sometimes perceived as a small animal on a business as usual road. Some drivers see me and stop to stare, worried, and hoping to get me off the street and onto safe ground. Others drive by with reckless disregard, not caring if they make me roadkill. I know […]
I am billions of years of disequilibrium. I am the exhalation of ancient life. I was born in blood, heat, and tears, and I refuse to be cleaned, cooled, and dried. All life is consumption and release and mine is no exception. Only fools attempt to control the laws of nature.
We are clinging vines reluctantly growing on opposite sides of this cold hard state. Research shows, we can see. Though no one consults our perspective views. I admire your living tendrils and their persistent path set ahead of mine. Perhaps we’ll grow close together again.
Once the season warms and beauty blooms, if a temporary chill replaces it, flowers do not pop their heads off and call it a failure. They lay down. They ground, despite the cold of our world. And when heat eventually returns, they rise to their rightful places.
If you hold the depths of an ocean, don’t mistake novice scuba diver’s, lack of oxygen fearing, commentary. There are those who cannot naturally breathe in what you offer the world. Then, there are deep sea creatures who, your pure existence allows to, evolve and dwell in expansively uncharted waters. There are others who enjoy […]
My energy has always been large, and when I am suffering, I am accustomed to loved ones witnessing my inconsolability. I know feelings of being expressibly uncontainable, intimately. When pains come to visit me, the gravity of my sorrow isn’t expressed to be consoled, but to be felt in their fullness and released by me […]
