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Brittle

I ached for this small, wrapped heart almost completely crushed yet happy.

It looks to me like some sort of baby, wiggling.

Comes with a mother who's senseless. An anemic queen.

 

The heart is tearing, it is crumbling.

I have to nurse it in my chest but I cannot keep from touching it.

All the blood is sick. I am too dizzy to walk.

There is no transplant, no giving it away.

 

I hold this heart in my fist.

It is shivering, completely terrified, with its deaf hum.

Backing into my palms. Bright red, deep maroon.

 

How do I save you love?

It's your death thats drawing me to you.

That declining beat.

Just like a sore rythm, along with my breathing.

 

I wonder if you'll ever rest.

So I stare inside its little hole.

If I could throw you into the sea, the mermaid that will rescue you

will open up your eyes.

 

She may mishandle you,

in your casket of silk freeze.

I cannot, will not watch you.

I know you were never that happy with me.

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river-elise
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Nov 4, 2010
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