I lay in quarries of hard-packed dirt forcing into repression each and every yesterday
My brain is fastened into knots
Impossible to peel apart
The tension mounting into migraines of volcanic proportions
Unable to cry because of the sting
I incise my way to the obstruction through my skin
Holding myself out in the cold renders me translucent
There’s a solace in leaving one’s heart behind by metaphysically removing it from its falsely caged warmth
And it’s not the beautiful thing I always envisioned it to be
Why it continues to beat… I’ll never know
But it will have to do so alone in the snow
I hate to evict such a kind and caring tenant
Unfortunately, the building is being condemned
Seeing it shiver
(I want to cradle it once more)
But the easiest good-bye is to just walk away
I drown out its tiny whimpers with a quivering lip and a stream of tears
No longer host to the poison of my soul
The fear of abandoning me is what I fear most
Consumed with emptiness I’m a soul full of holes
Like a pinball too big for the hollows of a labyrinth
A game I can not win
A game which never ends
Trapped forever…
in the creases of her smile.
By: Jaye Eryk
Copyright ©2009
Non-monosyllabic comments welcomed
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'' my brain fastens into knots
impossible to tear apart''
i loved this part! great write!
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Hits me like a truck of truth:
“Unable to cry because of the sting” How I can relate to this frigid freeze.
There’s a solace by moving the heart from its falsely caged warmth. Damn, that says a lot..
I hate to evict such a kind and caring tenant Unfortunately, the building is being condemned.. Another Wow truth factor, words placed perfectly in tune with reality makes sense to me. And of course, another masterpiece ending as well “Poe Bro” Such sorrow drips dry tears, damn I loath it here. Triangles.
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well, that last line sure wrapped it up, hmm? I feel like I can't breathe now.
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this is beautifully dark...i wish there were more of it, i was captured..i loved it.
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