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It'd be better if I helped you

Your spit on my lips tightens like

Shackles on my wrists

I cant wait till you burst through your skin and realize

The critical shape my skull is in from dreamin’ memories like dark tides

I could forget this memory

But this is what built me

It built me and built me and without it

I’d be significantly less then what I used to be

 

Can you see what I see

Because I got portraits of water colors made from angel tears

And it’s pouring images of you out from under my ribs

 

Your feet could be in sand

"Lay it to rest"

I say, because you must be awfully tired

You’ve walked at a steady pace for one hundred and fifty days

While I’ve gone one hundred and forty nine, you always

Manage to somehow be ahead of me daily

 

You can

Let your face fall into

My hands

 

What a sight to see

I want to be buried next to you but not in caskets

I want our bodies to be about three feet apart covered in soil

Growing with the earth my hand will push though dirt and holding yours

We’ll grow while dying

 

You’ve got eyes like winter I freeze

Your breath is cold as I swallow it

The wind in my hair

Could easily be your hand

I lay my head upon stones to crack my skull

Picking up imagination to show you what you’ve given me

And right now your hands on my temples feel like rocks

You feel solid

Like you’re the hardest dream to leave alone

 

You can

Let your face fall

Into my hands

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joey-zimmerman
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Published
Feb 2, 2011
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