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turn the blade, let us bleed

Our passage

shouldn't ****

but when we pull

the blades from the

****** bath,

who's to separate defeat

from **********

luck from loss--

you've lied dormant,

getting lax on the sweetness of love,

but yesterday

like a bat out of hell,

you awaken--

writing 3,

strolling up to me

confidently and whispering,

"compete".

A shiver for my spine,

a sudden grin,

and itchy fingers longing to bend--

 

My dearest friend,

now we begin,

should we pick a dueling topic?

A type of verse?

An emotion?

Draw the bounds of battle, Clark--

let's let the kiddos watch

from behind glass

as we tear our lives anew.

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jj-hutton
American
Published
Apr 21, 2011
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