She marinates my petaling skin,
with Vicks Vaporub. The cracks stop
at my stomach, to reveal a slick
oasis made by her calloused fingertips.
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This is what we fell into.
That’s why we take the stairs two at a time, we destroy the surveillance cameras, confiscate all the guns aimed at us, shut off all your alarms, and we speak.
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I used to imagine myself wrapped up in flames
Aching to feel the heat.
I could see the blood draining from my wrists
Just to feel the release.
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Boxed photographs in an attic
Full of grass
Morals torn to rags
Mirrors hung against
rusted and broken walls
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And someday,
I'll find my peace, and be proud on my own
It is now your final hour
I am taking back
My power
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I want to light myself with the darkness of your soul
As I wander through the dreary poisoned veins
That fuse together in chaotic delight
And fill the gap in my chest where there once was a hole
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Sorrow so deep
As a river-split canyon
Being gagged so I can’t
Speak my pain into space
The rocks pound deeper
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Not in the curves of her body, beauty is,
In the bend of her smile,
In the slant of her sign, it lies, unconcealed.
Flawless supple skin, beauty defines not,
But in her stretch marks and burns revealed it is.
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