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 KENThese sharp edges you left behind, they cut so deep; and I guess maybe I am just not dying enough.
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Like a fractured bone in the ribs, the heart can be painfully heavy sometimes.
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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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I guess there’s so much in your absence that kills my soul from the burning wood to ash.
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Love is a job doer and a man slayer. Both equally efficient, until the taste of it is most felt on the cold side of the ribs.
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I can sing love; only I’m afraid the lyrics might get shattered again.
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Most days missing her is my only choice between death and dying.
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I’ve been to the countryside a couple of times. Somedays it is all wood and grass and empty. Other days it feels like 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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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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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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This ‘missing you’ It begs for water; it cries your name.
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I held my breath underwater and felt surrender in my lungs; maybe this too counts as love.
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Somedays 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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