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Skeleton Secrets

I meet a skeleton hiding in the depth of my closet,

in nothing but my boots and a satin type corset,

still with her hair(well I’m assuming its a she)

and in her hand holding a special secret for me.

 

she assumes she knows more

than an average friend may

and to this I am startled,

but don’t give it away,

for what is a skeleton without

a name or a trace?

I mean, I beg your pardon,

get out of my face.

 

she hung there waiting for me to come by,

knowing that soon id be needing clothes to try,

and I swear she would hang there so happily,

excited at the prospect of alarming me.

 

and so I am frightened

by the grey of her bones,

by the scent of her flesh,

and the sound of her drones

yet of coarse i smile widely

if not slightly too trying,

at the hope of her secrets

confiding.

 

what she sais makes me angry but I know she is right,

there’s a dark place inside me that never sees light,

and she managed to find gapes in which to crawl through and sleep,

in-between all the sharp shadows of the feelings I keep,

hidden somewhere inside me that is so close to the grave

that I never look inside it, I’m never that brave.

 

until it reaches to a time my

secrets comes to me,

in the form of a skeleton

(unfortunately)

to tell me i should look deep

inside of what’s wrong,

and fill it with

what i knew

All along.

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kylin-luna
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Published
Sep 13, 2010
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