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Traversing the abyss

No.

You will not say you know me.

too much time has passed.

too much transpired.

 

You were gone when I fell head full

into the abyss,

crash landed

years later where I crawled out from beneath

thoughts heavy enough

to **** myself with.

to heavy to lift

sharp enough

to cut away and **** the parts of me that

where

 

beyond salvation

.

parts of me to heavy to stand with.

I love you,

I loved you .

Whispered like a lullaby,

draped over wounded thoughts;

screaming wrongness in me.

Echoing goodbyes in me.

 

The ache of knowing sacrifices must be made,

Ruined by the corrosion

of your unyielding misconceptions

and unreachable expectations.

Numbly I sat cutting away at the bits

of myself we had been beating and breaking down

for years.

 

red and raw

blue and empty

with trembling fingers

clawing

at all that sat wrong in my reflection,

parts

I thought I needed

but ruined would never stand me up right again

never hold up my chin.

 

Horrified;

at being so full

of so much nothing.

that I was to tight

to even catch my breath.

Seams bulging

from fingertip to

the ribs in my chest

 

Every moment agonizing.

Every second impossible.

Over and over

I died.

 

And still I would  wake ,

 

cruel  irony

by the thousandth time

I woke weary and cold

I looked upon the carnage

all of me disassembled at my feet,

a fear trembling deep in me ,

a courage to rebuild growing in my bones.

only picking up every bit of persistence I turned to go.

 

so no you do not know me

you were not there when I escaped from my own dark

to fill myself with slivers silver shifting , bits of an indifferent moon;

you were not there to journey my emptiness to traverse the abyss.

You were not there when I began to fill it.

In your absence I have grown

and still,

 

I do not know how you will fit here.

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Published
Jan 26, 2016
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"-when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

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