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Jul 2012
Loving me is hell
The brim ****** coal melting the
The rubber base of my shoes
Leaving my soles bare
And red and raw
Pulsating with heat pumping
Blood into my skin in attempts to
Make it live again
But my body is faulty
And it does not know the flakes around my toes
Are already gone
And any aid to save them is as useless
As rubber trying to fight fire
Loving me is hell
Because when I burn my feet I cannot stand any longer
And I will need you to carry my rotisserie rotten
Soles to where ever it is you wish me to go
And at first your arms are strong to hold my weight
But like everything else
Like the iron on statues like
The wood that built a house
They will weaken
And I will only be a burden of a beast
Whose soles not unlike my own heart
Makes you wonder if they are still completely in tacked
And you will consider throwing my body back
Into that fiery hell
Because loving me is just that.
Hayley Neininger
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