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ribs & skin
your ribs & skin don’t hide your heart from me it beats as if i were blind to pain meeting its greed i put skins around your shame when you just put leaves would you blame the gardner who put in...
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To Break the Ice
collaboration with Fairytale Epidemic If my tears were to be just droplets That could not make your oceans spill Then let the ice spread from your chest Until our eyes were frosted, until Your heart...
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now
you wait on our threshold as i carry over it your sorrow upon our mantle, roman & old lay our first kiss, now yellowed lips your match warmed me whole coals you stirred, now cold white sheets you...
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breathe yet into
hands became idle, then thieves that caressed i know you’re able, but hunger can’t resurrect sat at your table, you put your bread in as i dipped stood shaking and still, by you, am i known by this...
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twenty-seven
tears have left trails in the dirt on my cheeks i seeded our garden, but you invited the weeds i’ve pulled them out till my hands knew each thorn did my scars then make me worthy of your scorn? i got...
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twenty-eight
as a brute, but with soft knees let this become their callusing as a brute, but with no strength break my arm to get within its length put your hands on me against what was your lover’s chest peel the...
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hemorrhaged
could stone fragments make an altar lay them down, one on another scrape an inscription of surrender lay down my isaac, & not falter raised hand, & no lamb will come wasn’t the same when he...
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surrender
chest rose slowly, heart raced, head laid softly against you beckoned first by cradling as your arms embraced as i withdrew from your ways, you allowed my disgrace vines withered with the shade, paths...
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twenty-nine
convince me, light shines in the dark or close my eyes as if it’d make a difference split me open as if skin seperated you from my heart or sew up my side as if i’d mend from stitches convince me, i am...
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a heart’s tale
deceived myself as i convinced him you were the best gift then twice the liar as you lied in his arms, then carcassed my chest whispered in his ear that your lips were the sweetest of regrets like your...
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two minutes
should be grateful for 120 seconds to find some sort of expression, some words of affection that articulate better than my passive aggression. using my throat & tongue to form syllables seems like...
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split
it’d still be more natural than hatred to trace your hand with my fingertips, but you made my chest a casket i wish we could have words, even if it were just another eulogy, without pain driving my...
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