There’s not much I know about forgetting. By which I mean I can hear her name from a distance; and it still breathes cold in my chest.
ODD KENSomedays depression is tender, as though hurting is just an art; and that maybe she didn’t break me more than enough!
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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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Pain is never too weak to leave the body still standing or laughing the same.
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To me there was only ever you!
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To heal is to be constantly reminded that once you learn to punch, you die with blood on your wrist.
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Like her name, some people are best left scrouged on the skin.
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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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And when the cold comes, I swear I can feel her in my bones.
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I knew you would leave someday; And from there a poet will be born from the ashes.
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Often times the language is different; by which I mean, I love her, and it’s the only stammer I’ve ever known.
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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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Either the jump or the drown, loving her has always readied me for the fire.
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Sorry to a heavy heart in the morning; sorry to waking up and being yourself the only reason to cry.
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The broken worlds we hide inside; that’s how we start to die!
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These sharp edges you left behind, they cut so deep; and I guess maybe I am just not dying enough.
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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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