there is a cloud over my head tonight and I keeping biting down on my lip the blood is a red only seen when halving a watermelon that is perfectly ripe I will eat till my stomach bleeds seeing how far I can choke up the seeds cheering as they take flight I can only sleep in the dark and I break my own heart to dim the light
there is a dead plant on my front porch that I keep watering out of habit out of curiosity out of desperation I want to watch something grow in front of me something to hold in my hands something anything that I have made on my own when all hope is lost I want to be the one to bring life back into a comfortable home even if that means that I live alone and end up just a lonely box of bones