Bleach. Shaken, not stirred.
You dragged me to the edges of myself,
got high off the pure bliss
of gutting me.
From the inside out.
..
hours of dry heaving
tells me there's nothing left
of my insides.
You've thoroughly cleaned me out.
Yet. I still feel it.
..
The ghost of you
leaving behind traces of an unwanted
war. between us.
..
I stare at my stained clothes
at the bleach sitting beside them.
And my entire being leans towards it.
To be clean once more.
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Haddi
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Mamba
It’s very hard to capture this emotion but you did a brilliant job in doing so. Absolutely love it.

Haddi
Thank you, it only took a few hundred drafts <3

WhiteWolfe32
@Haddi this, this is some good stuff. Really like this imagery and you conveyed such a complex situation in such a brief poem… respect!

Haddi
Thank you, I'm just happy I could get my message across

GerardDiLeo
Powerful!

TE_Pastiche
“You've thoroughly cleaned me out.
Yet. I still feel it.
..
The ghost of you
leaving behind traces of an unwanted
war. between us.” I FELT this!!!

Haddi
Thank you sm

TE_Pastiche
“You've thoroughly cleaned me out.
Yet. I still feel it.
..
The ghost of you
leaving behind traces of an unwanted
war. between us.” I FELT this!!!