Today
I loved like graves and gravel
Heartbeats
Their silhouette splattered across shit and soil
He went digging.
Made me a crude effigy
Of half-hearted eulogies
And blew farewells that went sailing
In Brooklyn's stale air.
Each beat
Was in tune
With the raspy silence of a funeral.
He went digging.
Past the broken shards of my window opened ribcage
He unlocked the fingertips that glued my secrets together
He tore at the weak adhesive of my words
While I broke bread with the dusted bones
Of the woman I was before him.
Digging.
He buried me below sea level
I could feel his disgust behind
The chipped white of my chattering teeth
He couldn't feel the remorse beneath
The quivering wrinkles of my lifelines.
A funeral.
A watery grave
I felt his silence
Swimming in my eyelids
His absence
Gripping onto my lashes
Like erased love letters
Like a thief's forgotten tear drops
Like messages chopped, bodied and bottled
In apathetic seas.
The ocean doesn't care who it enters
It entered my lungs
Tickled the bubbles of my breath
I was choking on apologies.
Your lips are life jackets
Jerking away from me
In another world
3 Feet above the surface
Away from me. No wonder
I stopped struggling.
No wonder I stopped swimming.
I'm sorrys
Just don't float
As easy
As they used to.
(feels like its missing something. thoughts?)
I loved like graves and gravel
Heartbeats
Their silhouette splattered across shit and soil
He went digging.
Made me a crude effigy
Of half-hearted eulogies
And blew farewells that went sailing
In Brooklyn's stale air.
Each beat
Was in tune
With the raspy silence of a funeral.
He went digging.
Past the broken shards of my window opened ribcage
He unlocked the fingertips that glued my secrets together
He tore at the weak adhesive of my words
While I broke bread with the dusted bones
Of the woman I was before him.
Digging.
He buried me below sea level
I could feel his disgust behind
The chipped white of my chattering teeth
He couldn't feel the remorse beneath
The quivering wrinkles of my lifelines.
A funeral.
A watery grave
I felt his silence
Swimming in my eyelids
His absence
Gripping onto my lashes
Like erased love letters
Like a thief's forgotten tear drops
Like messages chopped, bodied and bottled
In apathetic seas.
The ocean doesn't care who it enters
It entered my lungs
Tickled the bubbles of my breath
I was choking on apologies.
Your lips are life jackets
Jerking away from me
In another world
3 Feet above the surface
Away from me. No wonder
I stopped struggling.
No wonder I stopped swimming.
I'm sorrys
Just don't float
As easy
As they used to.
(feels like its missing something. thoughts?)
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