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A Violent Tired

This terrible beating, a soundless roar that I

wear like worry. Caught in lace and sequin,

you stupid pretty thing.

Heart, you are so

devilishly ugly.

 

You make me awful and needful.

A trouble, an aching break that

never healed right.

Pitchfork and shrapnel jacket, a barbed wire

beauty.

 

I am disastrous and made of weeds. A hungry throat that

only knows

swallow.

 

Go on sky,

pour. The art of breath and walk,

of continue,

of live.

Of lust for better.

Awake a sugar glass

soul made tender.

 

I am great care, building scaffoldings between fistfight and belonging.

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Written by
leah-rae
American
Published
Jun 12, 2016
Lines·Words
21·98
Tags
#war#peace#life#heart#pain#social#beauty#justice
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