I sleep to feel                                                                          
your touch sway                                              
pendulums.                                                        

                    Images swirl                                                                            
                    in a couldron                                                                          
                    they boil into                                                    
                    mist.

let's save sanity;

write about
the insanities we
see, think, know,
commit.

it will not last
a lifetime

but can save a life.
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is the moment
I breathed in
and tasted
nothing,
heard the echoes
of limbo
where silent
heartbeats filled in
what time cannot

This interlude of comfort
carries mountains.

There is a line
between the fields
of right and wrong.
We walk, and meet, and
pass each other by.
Beyond the ends of
what we see, our paths
shall cross once more.

A wave of relief
A sigh
A kiss

A contented smile

I am grateful

*She chatted on an on of evidence of past indiscretions. Having said them again and again, made it easier to piece together the broken pieces of her life. Hearing it once more, felt normal.

There was a time life stopped. There's no real way to descibe it. A cool, clear stream rushing around your ankles, carrying away blood from severed veins, while all you can do is watch that fine, red line escape you.

I hated everything. I even hated hating.

Looking back at all of it, recalling the words, you remember the truth, not the smoke.

Maybe i can go to a better place. Somewhere not as polluted. God knows... more than i can say.

Those stolen
glimpses you send
my way ******
permanent slime on skin,
suffocating, paralyzing

into a stiff-person
walk, viscera curdling,
beats slowing
and bones twisting.
I stop

far away, and stay
in a between. I lose
my thoughts and watch
strangers' eyes pry off my skin
until I emerge.

i lie in this empty box
where sunlight shines through dust

my hand lingers on a knife

i see the alleyway and wait
watch dogs devour their meal

i wait for you to come

i tasted it
i held it

i am