"glow"

the claims you keep
laying beneath shattered bathroom windows
gladly accepting
all fails and tactics.
you whisper doves into the lips of more
pleasant girls;
i stand from below, screaming up from wells.
dodging stares and memories..
this reaching out.
has me bruising livers.
has me brushing medicated mindsets.
the truth is, i am retracting.
withdrawing..
this symbol.
cremated resin.
you wade thru split cheeks and difficult
circumstances.
i'm having trouble relating to anything in
this world that isn't a lyric.
throw the bows to who we were.
not who we can be.
the things we say when liquid warms us..
sweet possibilites..
the only time the foreboding sadness does not
enthrall us.
i am not weaker but something more of
stone.
these pulses errupting from my capillaries,
wants to touch your face.
but this hole i keep in my chest,
wants to take something and wait for the
wash.
synonyms for things like, love.


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