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anemotaxis.

i.

when you pushed me --
i'd fall down.

i remember screaming through each crevice, as i would reach a new crack,
you'd crank me down further and chew me out.

eventually,


i would find my way out, because once you've been cast into a maze so many times
again and again;
you learn the way out
like it's been written on your hand.

somedays,

you'd let me out, and send  me home.

i'd lay in my bed and lock away a new pair of bloodied up knees and plagurized apologies, to let them ferment for another day.


ii.

in time,

my body found a new form after bending to each push and pull
of your calloused fingers, and a new set of promises and why-wont-you's.

your smile and your glazed glare would eventually rise through my skin, penetrate the surface with venom and scar the cells that surronded it;

it was in this way that after a while you taught me to memorize the process of anemotaxis, and to count each mosquito bite-like reminder of your affections.

103.

103 times that i've scarred myself for you.

-- they say all wounds heal,
but what if this is meant to be,
i'm sure i'll always suffer in these moments,
because fate and time love to be cruel with me.

iii.

and it is with such enduring pain, and precise recollection

that a heart unlearns anemotaxis,

and set's itself into reverse;

this new boy came and he said to me;


' take my hand, i can feel the light, let me hold you close.. i don't want to lose
this chance tonight '



and helped me escaped the maze.




                              ~
thank you for teaching me how to love again.

Author notes

This is to someone from another someone. S, thank you for treating her so well when i'm not there to make sure everyone else is.


by: r o b o t s s x i n x l o v e e

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  • Kathraina silver member
    August 10

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    Oh wow, I love the tone here.
    Great flow throughout. I love your word usage, it creates absoluting amazing imagery.
    Bravo!


    ♥Kate


  • innocence jaded.xx
    June 14

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    Wow. First off, title is AMAZING. And your poem? I love it. (:

    -103 times that i've scarred myself for you.

    -- they say all wounds heal,
    but what if this is meant to be,
    i'm sure i'll always suffer in these moments,
    because fate and time love to be cruel with me.
    ...

    I absolutely LOVED that. Just how you worded it and how the emotion just pours from every line. And the whole '103 times that i've scarred myself for you.' I love the originality in that line, and also the simplicity of it.


    Thank you for entering


  • Isolatedsouls17
    June 4
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    very lovely and poetic...good luck in the contest


  • Antebellum
    May 27

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    when you pushed me --
    i'd fall down.

    i remember screaming through each crevice, as i would reach a new crack,
    you'd crank me down further and chew me out.



    ooh i got goosebumps reading this.
    amazing write.

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