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I'm truly in love with the way your heart breaks.
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I, a girl
laden by authority,
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& These past couple weeks have been a
b u r n i n g,
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I pretended to place my fingers deep within my chest, grabbing at the heart that I used to wear on my sleeve.
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Only these lips can form sentences between scars.
In this trial of delinquency,
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Your hand touched my heart,
and
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You've studied these eyes so vividly; these eyes plagued with coffee and anxiety.
You, only you were convinced you’d pinpointed me:
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She s i l e n t ly
between the chorus of her favorite song,
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he said, "Rock."
but I said, "Scissors."
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only a few drops cut short of a rainstorm,
and only a few missteps of a catalyst;
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& i lay stuck on you like a piece of fabricated species, [ an obliteration ]
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&darling,
do you bleed as much as you sweat?
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Freeze for the camera, sugar. [cause once you s h a k e it,
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The four walls bleed with yellow from the setting sun, We sing songs of lampshades full of energy,
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all i'm saying is: sit here in the orchestra of my heart.
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How far can you swing those hips? can you t-t-talk without the lisps?
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She lifts her neck & suddenly, the spiderwebs pour out.
She st-st-stutters on each prepositional phrase & stops when she reaches an interr
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a heart s p e c k l e d with catatonia, disstension,
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Chaos splinters my tongue,
plagues my b e a t i n g heart,
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ohheydarling, let's sit down,
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Fanning confidence away from batting eyelashes, poetry hiding under skin so pale, so vile.
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She held out her hand,
&the galaxy leaked between her fingers,
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Her teeth chatter together,
the ends of her hair splitting like the rainbows in her paintings,
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I felt the tears enveloping my lips,
trying to rid all of your smile lines from my mind,
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I thought i could always dance in the sunlight of your
irrevocable,
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I feel my skin dripping off like candle wax,
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She c a n ' t crystallize these pale eyes, no longer can she be:
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In a world full of [ s a t u r a t e d ]
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the damsel just left everything,
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