“ my death will be grand. ”
your chest aches like an abandoned house, all crumbled brick & shattered glass. you hands are empty window frames no shine, / only absence. these are the ties that have bound us together. how nature can & always will will / reclaim our bodies, sending vines through ribcages, trees through hearts. someday they will find us side by side, fingers intermingled like kindling / you could give this yearning heart to him, ribboned & bloody. beating thunder against your palms. would he accept / it ? / turn forward these clocks on our change. metamorphose with him into something brilliant & cratered. you both will be shining creatures at last.
( here, think of the story this way: you have sat in this same room every time thesad ate you whole, when the vodka burnt down your throattype of goodbye, the bells ringing as the newmoons wake up & all you could do was miss the old onesthat hurt you a little too long. i guess everything ends except for the longing. even ourwounds get tired of working, rehashing so much we can’t remember how they started & we end up stuck, here,always in the same boats with the same ghosts, the same hates, the same loves. & isn’t that what we’re afraid of the most?5 years down and still asking how to moveour bones.
what if we make a habit out ofweeping off our old days, to never bothersaving them in a jar, to live with the wounds & whatever else has already begun ? w/he is too young for this. w/he haven’t lost just yet. )
❛ no, it wouldn’t be. ❜ the human body holds 270 bones at birth & sometimes you wonder if you were born fewer, because there’s this empty / this echo / this aimless love inside yourself, & you didn’t know where to put it before him. him with his small smile & strong quirk & soft face & ❛ not for me … & not for you, either. ❜ love still bursts like bluejays from your mouth & unlearning this would feel flightless, anyway. if his life is a thread, your heart is a knot / an unravelling / a curtain letting in light, or
none of that, only the way it feels to run your fingers in his hair & let his sobs shiver you apart. only seeing the spread bones of another chest & not flinching, but opening yourself in return. you, you want to show him the feathers stored under your bed. you want to show him how there was never any difference between loving him & loving his shaking / his reasons / his open ribcage.
right now you cannot remember the way your childhood bedroom looked like, you do not carry the sun - faded paint & ceiling fans in your lungs, you have forgotten the betrayal of hurting for the first time, for him / for yourself / for you both together.
❛ there is nothing grand in the thought of losing you, ❜ is this whisper. you hope it doesn’t stay frozen to your lungs. ❛ not now & definitely not ever. you’re important to me alive, minami touri, lets keep it that way. ❜
it’s a cross country bundle of feathers & tears as you finally pull him close, fingers pressed firmly against his pulse & tears threatening to spill further down than they already have, thrUMptHRumpThrumP ( translation: he’s alive & he’s with you. you’re safe now. )
















