fade

no door closed,

no words left behind,

just a silence stretching, a presence thinning 

a name I no longer say.

ember

the warmth of an almost-touch
outlives the fire of bodies spent.

softer than skin,

quieter than longing,
louder than what was never said.

her fingers traced 

the rim of her steaming coffee cup 

as she gazed out the window 

of her 21st-floor apartment. 

the city pulsed, unbothered. 

the house clung to her, unwilling to let go.

wrench

when
you
hurt

where
do 
you
point
the 
gun?

look into my eyes

and lie to me

I will believe you

i

the world's a crcus

romeo

I remember places by the way they taste

(look here)

we interact not with words, nor gestures; we sit beside each other and stare into spaces that we know in our hearts are only ours

I pray not

for wisdom;

if it so came

with the tooth

I’d have it extracted

"i assure you am not jealous", he said
"i just wish you dead for following my dream"

you're most vulnerable when you think you're invincible, and you are

the prestige

what's going on?! I was to be him by now.

oh, what's the world come to. a yawn travels faster than a smile.

"i want to have your children", she whispered in his ear pouring out some oil into the boiling cauldron.

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i tread along your eyelid, over tears for boulders

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I will sleep for you

dream your dream

take the pain away

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i wrote this in slow mo

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a loafer of a bread

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scaredscarredsacred

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wrapping her in cellophane

kills me with the noise