An Image You See Though You Close Your Eyes

Poems, thoughts, and aphorisms for all of you.

[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

“when we fall apart it means we were something once, and that makes it all infinitely sadder”

— - jjcm

[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

“there are things that I miss, more than I remember”

— jjcm

[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

some nights my eyes hang open

two wounds pierced through me

where my soul seeps out, slowly

into the always waiting dark

little by little

[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

I stand on the edge of the sky and scream out your name alone

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[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

“through fire and through storms we have come, why should we turn back now?”

— - jjcm

[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

“some nights I burn away til all that’s left is ash and smoke beneath a dark sky and I wonder if you will remember me when I fade out with the morning’s light”

— - jjcm

[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

“when the stars burn all away to savage dust the echo of you will remain in me”

— - jjcm

[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

“there is no shame in breaking”

— jjcm

[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

“there are things that I miss, more than I remember”

— jjcm

[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

“I breathe out everything and still you remain”

— - jjcm

[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

“when all the wicks have been burned away I light my fingers as candles to fill the emptiness”

— jjcm

[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

there are places in dreams where we forget how to get back to being alive

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[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

the hours I’ve wasted stretch farther than … it doesn’t even matter

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[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

you slide electric across my tongue a sunset of liquid light

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[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

in the dark no one sees the angles across your skin lines of fire draining to the sea

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[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

we spin through our last breakdown teeth bared dancing to the last, our feet are fire

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[thoughyoucloseyoureyes]

you read these pieces each one a stitch removed from my soul you’ve been watching me unravel all along

jjcm