What

Do you

Love

the Most

Now Take

a Hammer

& Torch

you Feel

That Lump

Deep Down

In your

Throat

That Says

No

I Don’t

Want to

I’ll Choke

you Know

That

If It

Happens

To Break

It Will

Never

Go Back

the Same

&

the Pain

Will

All Ways

Remain

#B27321

the heart marinates

in acidic cycles

weakness dissolves

and marbled trauma

saturates thought

devoured by

ravenous time

let us savor

life

at tables divine

organic martyrs

reigning as kings

from beneath

crowds and roses

we drink the

fountain of youth

from eyes we left

streaming salty

on our muddy sky

Cadillac fantasies,

Moonlit dreams.

Fireflies danceing,

Over wandering streams.

Radio playing,

That Johnny Cash sound.

Cigarette in hand,

No worries to be found.

All alone on a dirt road,

Just my thoughts and me.

Things become blurry..

What could this mean?

The meds wear off,

Things aren't what they seem.

With a white room this lonely, 

You atleast have to dream..

Years have passed.

You have died.

And yet here I am...

I'm still there.

In the living room,

with the french doors.

In the house,

Decorated with holes.

I'm across the road,

From the family,

that never gave a damn.

Maybe if I could have

Shrunk myself down,

Small enough to fit

In one of your bottles..

Maybe then you would have noticed me.

"Everyone around you has life to live..

It's time you got over yourself and

Just accepted the fact that,

You're just not that important. 

While your days and nights,

Are blurring together, they don't notice.

How can you expect them to notice?

You don't mean a damn thing. "

I've floated to the bottom again.

Days and nights,

Weeks and months,

Spent kicking my way to the surface.

Somehow I lost my rhythm.

My legs and arms stopped cooperating..

So I sank.

I don't want to drown. 

I don't want to feel rock bottom,

Just below my body.

I made it most of the way up,

But the tide changed..it always changes..

I will rest at the bottom.

I will take water into my lungs

And I will embrace the pressure

Wrapped around my body.

I will drown today

And that's alright. 

The urge is there. 

Imagine the adrenaline.

Like losing grip of a helium balloon;

You don't want to lose it, 

But you also want to see how far it will go.

The desire to feel in control,

Feuled by anger. 

A need for revenge. 

A hunter, of grotesque game.

An animal, hunting for sport.

The fine line between predator 

And prey. 

Don't look too closely.

I might bite.

GET THE FUCK

-you're my love

OUT OF MY HEAD

-and my crystal skies

YOU REPLACED MY EUPHORIA

-i might as well carve you

WITH DESOLATION INSTEAD

-right into my eyes

IF I SMASHED MY FACE

-you're everything green

INTO THE WALL

-and everything tall

THEN WOULD YOU LEAVE

-you're a perfectly clear

MY THOUGHTS ONCE AND FOR ALL

-strong waterfall

AT FIRST YOU WERE WELCOMED HERE

-you helped me rid

BUT NOT ANYMORE

-my mind of weeds

YOU DID NOTHING FOR ME

-you patched up the bruises

BUT MAKE MY LIMBS SORE

-that littered my knees

WHY DON’T YOU RETURN

-you are the sun rays

TO THE DARK PITS OF HELL

-that keep my pale skin warm

MAYBE THEN I COULD BREAK

-you are nothing less

THROUGH LOVES FRAGILE SHELL

-than a perfect rain storm

I WAS FOOLISH BUT THIRSTY

-your waters i used

AND MADE THE MISTAKE

-to cool down my heart

OF DRINKING FROM NARCISSUS’S

-you're my perfect

STUPID LOVE STAKE

-counterpart

NOW IT’S BEEN SHOVED

-our souls, i am sure

INTO THE DEPTHS OF MY HEART

-fit in each others embrace

PERHAPS NOW MY SOUL

-reveling in

CAN GRIMLY DEPART

-our minor grace

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