"its as if the taste never leaves my open mouth"
"that kiss only coming about because leaping into your body was easier than crawling"
"and the need to breathe was so strong"
"with the mint smoke that rose into the sky surrounding and smothering"
"lips/neck/teeth/tongue"
"everything the eyes could swallow without fear of choking"
"because feeling complete was more important that simply living in distant agony."
            
                
                                            ---------- "Excuses"---------

was discovered
prematurely.

all the careful punctuality
consciously conceal within this
carelessly
placed note,
has allowed it to                         resonate
by
flushing the pain

out of organs

like they wanted donated once
                                                      they were gone.

putting my headphones
before my house keys.
       *it doesn't matter if I sleep rough
       as long as my head is drowned of thought...
    
       *that alone is enough.

i would, I wouldn't, I could, I couldn't.
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nights thrown away
casually
these
unrealising, unrepentant, ungrateful
hands.
ephemeral friendship.
and
the moon was snuffed out.
these hands.
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give me a chance
to be alive with you
to have these reckless hands held
*once again.