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It was about ships but then I changed my mind

Off course,

Of course

The sea's salty

spray

stings my eyes

Trembling pointer finger

I wipe away what I can only imagine

is a drop

packed full of

fish ****

 

Often,

the fan shakes

Or is it me who isn't still?

Often,

I'll grab for warm skin

I'll dig

desperately

through layers of

Filth and disappointment

Often,

I'll grab for you

More filth and disappointment

 

 

Outside,

the sound waves find their way into my lonely quarters

Filling the endless cracks of whistling wind

Filling the endless cracks of my cold respite

 

 

The glow of your face

Eyes

piercing through the darkness

with valor unseen

by heroes

brave

and timeless

 

I've never worshipped hands

so leathery

Wounded by

stale

talk

that sank into your heart

like an anchor carelessly dropped

into the sea's cruel

blue

swell

 

I would say sorry

a thousand times over

if it stripped your heart

of the ghosts that hide and cackle

amongst your vast,

haunted corridors

 

I'm still---

the shallow shards of your breath

poke at my bullet proof hip

My brain drips manically with the endless horror

of your

ghastly, **** luck

It creeps into my porous skin

embedding itself into my DNA

God,

I've never felt so helpless

 

I've felt your fingers

like the apple out of my reach

I'll catch you

before you hit the ground

like all the heroes before you

With a marble floor slate

that was empty

and pure

With the white sheen of better handshakes

and conversations

with more peaks

than valleys

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