jillyan-adamsWhisper

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Santa ReindeerNot only are we going to kill you / (Subsequently leaving your wife and children destitute) / and glue your head to the wall
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stagnationThere is an old adage - I'm sure you've heard it - that life without movement is death. / today I feel the truth of it / somewhere between my sternum and my spine
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albatrosspressing the tight muscles of my shoulders / hard against the stillness of the air / leaning into the melody and out of it again
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some things can't be titled.The tiny starfish hands pressed on both my cheeks. Her heart trembling in her sea-washed, sky-gray eyes. Little delicate lips pressed in an adult line of barely-controlled emotion. The dirty, dully-shining tear streaks that drew paths through her freckles. Butterfly kisses, I would tease her as I swept her into the salty air. / I have to focus. I steel myself, dragging memories from the back of my clouded mind and setting them before my fogging eyes. I refuse to let them slip away again. I could never live with myself if I did. / I had said something to her. Ignore the fact that I can’t remember what it was. She smiled through the tears, her laugh a reminder that she wasn’t the adult she was trying desperately to be - that I was forcing her to be. I had wrapped her in my arms for the last time, lifted her toddler body easily from the sand. She held onto me tighter than I thought she could - another underestimation, I suppose. My neck started running with her tears. I hummed her song through a choked throat.
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Forgive andYou forget / You forget that I've done this before. / I've stood in that spot sodden by tears,
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it will be a very long timeit will be a very long time / before i stop thinking of your lips / every time
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The HorrorOh, the horror. / When the teardrops falling / On your shirt
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FadingI thought I could hold onto you, / That the emptied hallways / Of my mind
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If you need these words, they are for YouYou / Are beautiful. / You
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the other night.As we spoke and I / found myself safe in your eyes / I suddenly saw
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