Like a fractured bone in the ribs, the heart can be painfully heavy sometimes.
ODD KENAfter healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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If ever the fall is the ground, someone tell her I’m this close to soil, and I can feel it!
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All through the depression, I was the soft toy in the hands of a baby with sharp teeth.
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There’s a constant battle of me and healing; all of which still sits burning and intricately perplexed in ink.
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Give everything some time; pain hasn’t learn to walk yet.
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I guess you’re the bee and the stings all at once; By which I mean you’re the reason I wrap these tired bones around every aching thing.
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Today I can see the cracks on the wall they’re visible; but I can tell they are finding their way to soil, And so am I.
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Just as it demands blood, to meet bone, It’ll forever take something painful to understand pain.
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I forget how our story started; but these days I’m finding the missing pieces behind every exhale, where I left the words standing with sore feet.
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In the end not every bleeding thing dies; at least, not like a paper plays in fire.
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Either the jump or the drown, loving her has always readied me for the fire.
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And when the cold comes, I swear I can feel her in my bones.
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Sometimes even in pain we smile to the world until we think we’re dying.
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I’ve seen it, I know it too; love still dances in the fire after the rescue.
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No one thing stays the same after a goodbye.
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I guess there’s so much in your absence that kills my soul from the burning wood to ash.
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