Please come save my body from my soul.
Even my fingernails ache with the weight
Of those thousand wine-induced truths.
Every eyelash carries a lost dream,
Neverlands and rain on windshields
In which I go nowhere in the night in a car
I can’t drive.
And my calloused heels!
Imperfections rendered by faulty directions,
U-Turns,
And Leaps of Faith
I’m surprised when my chest still rises and falls
And that breath still whistles through my nose
When all these bricks lay there,
Heavy and unmoved.
My body will someday reject me,
I fear.
Too many sleepless nights and coffee cups
Will shatter me
So please save me
Oct 11, 2012
Oct 11, 2012 at 10:17 AM UTC
Please come save my body from my soul.
Even my fingernails ache with the weight
Of those thousand wine-induced truths.
Every eyelash carries a lost dream,
Neverlands and rain on windshields
In which I go nowhere in the night in a car
I can’t drive.
And my calloused heels!
Imperfections rendered by faulty directions,
U-Turns,
And Leaps of Faith
I’m surprised when my chest still rises and falls
And that breath still whistles through my nose
When all these bricks lay there,
Heavy and unmoved.
My body will someday reject me,
I fear.
Too many sleepless nights and coffee cups
Will shatter me
So please save me
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