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Crawling Blossoms

I put myself through scratchy throats

And eye drying crimson nights

For a promise

 

But I'm not doing what I love

I'm loading pressure on my

Weak spots constantly and

Hoping with wandering glances

That I'll catch gold in the wind

With my lashes beant down

 

With my lips curled into half hearted sneers I wish this

Hollow mask would fade slowly

To reveal

Walking on all fours with

My mouth open to catch your spit

Fun nights of tickling to the last

Dying breath, I'd

Slide two fingers to hush your words

And drink up your gasps I would

Rip my tongue on your

Flypaper if you laid it open

 

If you wished it, your dreams could

Enslave me so

I'd bend back until my spine felt dizzy

But you wouldn't know that

My laughter would be biting back

My blood from its boiling point

I would wait, and in goosebumps pray for

Release

 

I feel

Every bodies pain

Through the way the hold their mortal dolls

Closed tightly from the world

Their words, as sweaters to contain

Their misery it ferments slowly

The wishes that they left unkempt and growing wild from

Dead innocence, their seeds

Crawling blossoms from the dirt

Catch my fingers sliced open

As they linger to prune

 

I'd flounder for the night your

Fireflies would glow

Dimly from tired eyes

That peeled the day back

From lovers you watched

Spitting as if to

Bleed yourself back into the ground

 

I'll wait

As widows to the wind

I'd call and hope for the stars to answer in your name

For you wandered through millennia

To face this

Time of quivering fevers breaking

sweat storms

Of pouring glasses full of

Last years abandoned daydreams

That curdle as we hesitate

To drink them

For a moment where our lives seemed

Less real

And we hunger

For a glance that would wash clear

The smog of our confusion

And tie the tattered ploys of our

Restless youth to the stars

 

I'd steer them so you could sleep

If only you needed me to

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Apr 18, 2013
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