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Zoe Averill Ren Oct 2018
I see many stars,
just staring down the bottom
of an empty can.
Zoe Averill Ren Oct 2018
"Rough", a polite way of expressing my apprehension from the start, couldn't have known I was shaking for all the wrong (Reasons) that you left are in surplus this season; flipping vowels upside down along with my smile, and faded hues stand out the most now;  this pale blue follows me but that seems so irrelevant most days. Years pass and as my eyes grow feeble, I see more, more, more, and you are the greatest beauty I have ever seen, your fragile chest and broken bones more than memories for me to launder between the parts of my brain that still give a ****. I replaced the decay of my spirit with rotted lungs, with magick however alleged, ritual a key, components fine like the filigree that lined my illusions, dramatic tone and teeth marks make me quiver, alchemical bonds between the ground and I, afire is the sky and my insides turn bone white and glowing under your moon.
Stop spinning ...
The feeling of overflowing consumes me, and abundance isn't always preferred, to tell you the truth I kind of miss all of my innards being contained within me. But each day I feel a little less invisible and it gets that much easier to deal with this (hole) thing, forget the flashing moments of misery  in which I could suffocate myself because it's hard to complain, I must admit I've created every crevice and ****** crack that you see on my body with my own devices, like trying to mold clay with scissorhands; This expulsion may be near unpalatable but it seems to me the only thing that helps me forget, truth is I don't know why I haven't yet; just chaotic noise like the raps that flowed from the lips of the artist that I wasn't paying any attention to at all that night at that coffee shop.
Zoe Averill Ren Oct 2018
Counting blessings on both hands-
worthy company and light
gleaming past the sunsets & quicksands,
my body and love
resemble perfect synonyms,
health and your serenity
carry me through, intuition is
all I know; stopped counting
the days long like molasses
and run on sentences I can't control
any more than this feeling, surpasses
all reason and confidence shakes
under the weight of reality, could have
should have known each touch was sacred
dividing my dreams into crooked halves;
quixotic the way I cling to every
exchange, glances revealing truths
swept under sea with a heartbeat,
pleading for remembrance, proof
of transient marvels and opulence,
lost and wondering but not what if,
instincts sing stationary, staring down a
cliff.
Zoe Averill Ren Oct 2018
Took the strength of three
of me to align the planets with
the tone of your voice reflecting
fragments I see, "would be"
clinging to me like bedstraw
on my laces, shiftless
smiles I plead are true,
clairvoyance fulfilled fantasies
that I'd had minimal faith in,
rotting and hosting mildew;
regression inevitable and eremitic
more like a shield than an excuse
but no one seems to know the difference
between the two, this heresy tastes acidic
when everything I believe suggests
that there is purpose here concealed
in the cracks with blooming marigolds,
promises sealed in the irises of my eyes,
still unsure of the origins of this intensity
and allegiance I am accursed to uphold.
Zoe Averill Ren Oct 2018
Anxieties like dancing
with flames when
the winds change,
third degrees burns
I was waiting for,
debating when to digress, and where.
Necessities not but desires
another story, shines brighter
when you're pulling passion
out of me like stiltskin
weaving gold out of the ache
in my chest, runs deep through my bones.
Yours I was since summer's end
and in my heart will always be
the echoes of sea gulls calling
me to a place I am not welcome
since the moon fell, crashed
making waves and my lungs deluged.
Zoe Averill Ren Oct 2018
Pulp floats
on the illusion of ivory,
hidden love notes and
disease dispelled from the throat.
Deafening nerves
compete with echoes of our screams,
wax drips on all four corners,
residual strawberry preserves.
Obligations I keep
under "notions of love",
and all the stars we put in the sky
because it's too hard to sleep.
Zoe Averill Ren Oct 2018
Silken yellow honey stains
on my sweater, two sizes
too big, scrubbed for days.
Stubborn marks won't go away
not that I'd complain,
colors bloomed on night crusades.
Starved fast, no gains
still faithful bones remain
on this ardent search, pleasure abstains.
Selfless stares from a distance,
untouchable daydreams inflating
my head with lavender and persistence.
So hard not to over think, excavating
expectations, when you scrutinize
hope you see devotion in my veins.
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