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When I write, I can’t cry. When I cry, I can’t write. I have ended up weeping as I am stranded between a rock and a pen. I want a blood transfusion. The red for the black. I want ink to spill from me when they splinter my skin with their scalpeled words. I want it to fountain from me when I trip on my own sentences and shoelaces, skinning my knee. And I want it to bleed the permanency of black, when you take my stained glass heart and hold it dripping in your hand. With your stained finger tips like midnight freeing the mocking birds and scarlet poppies to burst forth from me like water through the cracks of a crumbling levy.
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Jul 10, 2013
Jul 10, 2013 at 2:57 PM UTC
Wishing to be an Inkwell
When I write, I can’t cry. When I cry, I can’t write. I have ended up weeping as I am stranded between a rock and a pen. I want a blood transfusion. The red for the black. I want ink to spill from me when they splinter my skin with their scalpeled words. I want it to fountain from me when I trip on my own sentences and shoelaces, skinning my knee. And I want it to bleed the permanency of black, when you take my stained glass heart and hold it dripping in your hand. With your stained finger tips like midnight freeing the mocking birds and scarlet poppies to burst forth from me like water through the cracks of a crumbling levy.
ella-snyder
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Jul 10, 2013
Jul 10, 2013 at 2:57 PM UTC
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