I watch the minutes
Peeling from your bloodied lips
Farewell’s copper kiss
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I dream only of you
Of the clock’s waning gestures
Of censure and guilt
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I emptied my hopes
Into a man that had none
Time danced by fearless
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Pained by its passage
I slipped into the mortar
Of a self-made cell
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I don’t want to change
To accept this fate unwished
Leave me to the stars
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Leave me to my dreams
To my lone constellations
To a hope-spun grave
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Shining in the dark
Like a pharos, denial
Is my only friend
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Trauma turns to scars
That harden, I wear my bones
On the surface now
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Seeds of nostalgia
Grow such beautiful flowers
And such bitter fruit
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From this fragile love
An iron-scaled hatred seethes
I want to hurt you
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To taste only grief
In your name, a monster bred,
An obsession
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My hands prey like birds
Stripping blue worms from dry earth
To stop the hunger
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My heart cannot bear
Your loss, the cold exodus
Of souls dividing
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There are no masks
Left to hide beneath, my face
Through exposure cracks
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Your China doll crushed
Inside a sterile embrace
No womb to regress
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No heart to lie on
No warmth through which I might mend
Stiff fingers point down
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I hate your pale face
The trenchant black digits
That cry nevermore
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I am sorry I could not stop writing haiku!
Submission for
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