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do you think of me in the early hours of the morning when sleep avoids you when the skies are still dusted with stars, the sun just escaping its slumber when the moon glows brightly like a beacon in the depths of darkness, a soothing spectre

do you look at me and see something, something notable, something like a spark of life that lights the flame in the eyes of others

do you see my hands and wonder where they became scratched, callused, and wounded and have this drive to soothe the ache made from a lifetime of labor as if it could ease the ache from my eyes

do you see me like how I see you?

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feels like hands in my ribcage catching between the ribs one by one fingers shoved beneath my sternum gripping at the bones and pulling

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AND I WILL BREAK MY BONES REPEATEDLY UPON THE ROCKS, THIS VESSEL OF MINE IS A TOOL TO BREAK.

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We are digging our/ graves, with our teeth and talons/ To be lost to sea.

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there's blood on my soles/ an emptiness in my chest/ and tears on my face

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how frustrating it is to have words caught in your throat clawing with your nails begging to scream them out but they never come

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And you were an abyss, too deep, too dark, too heavy of a shadow to observe.

And in the wake of your absence, when that shadow dissipated, I fucking sobbed.

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i have spent eons, spiraling around the sun in slow progression, waiting for something to change but no matter how long I have begged, screamed, cried to be released, nothing is different and time marches on

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OH GOD, I'M FIT TO BURST AT THE SEAMS AND FALL APART THREAD BY THREAD

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this building groans and creaks under its own weight its bones buckle under the stress of gravity its leaning as if it wasn't built to support itself as if it is moments away from catastrophe as if it's some ancient being but it's not even antique

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I'm creaking on rusted restless hinges, driven by a wind I can't control. I screech and groan as the wind pushes me along, forced opened and closed by the pressure of air. a tired door in its doorway, seeing the inside and outside, aware but not truly knowing what either is like.

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it's hard to be kind when this form has felt violence when my hands itch to claw and tear and defend when these bones flinch away from others yet I choose it and I choose it readily for the world is not known to be kind And it is better to have loved and been hurt than to have not felt at all

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a ghost is a ghost, through and through. did you think you could change, darling? or was it wishful thinking, born from a skull who wished for something better?

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