No-one wants your bruised heart. They don't want your sinking eyes, still sinking. Don't go to them with your hot-flaccid arms and legs, at the ready to melt - they are not concerned with the currency of high-sloped waves. Or the heavy part of the ocean that speaks only to itself and the sky.
Realise that implosions, for them, are silent and boring - now, you are implosions: your voice, your thoughts, your blockings, constantly *******.
But sweep it all under some dusty rug, for you to trip on later, because they don't want anything of you that is not happy. Drain your being of all its depths. Then continue every day as a sculptor: chiselling Β Β at yourself until you form a smile; filling your sockets with sand. Deception is the art they prefer.
A year of loneliness, and distance and idled youth