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“Can you state your emergency?” “There’s been a lung collision.” He’s stealing your breath, darling I can’t feel your lungs What an aberration, forced to bleed the river of an emotion You were never taught to feel growing up I think nobody told you how to feel a colour so hard Crimson on your neck, on your chest But I cannot find a wound Your breath feels like knives But it’s funny, you’re dying You’re trying to tell me something It sounds like the kind of thing you would say right at sunset Slurring your sevens like you have mints on your tongue But you are only gasping for air Marble gazes Your eyes are lolling back They are the same eyes that have cut through me The same eyes I’ve always thought were beautiful When you were sad You are weak and you are failing Completely unlike the times You would walk in like a sandstorm No less powerful than a serpent Beautiful Now you are trying to speak “Feels like a fishbone dislodged in my lungs” And you laugh You are laughing and you are dying And this night still feels like day I tried scraping out the difference Between guilt and self-loathe But the answer only lies on the blade of this knife Maybe I could tell you I don’t know what I did with it The reason we are not sure from which wound This blood is seeping from It wasn't just a lung collision It was the explosion of a galaxy in your chest When your ribs bent and cracked Now they are broken, dust You are breathing in rust But it does not matter because you are dying In the distance there is the sound of sirens They are coming and they might be far too late.
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Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015 at 8:45 AM UTC
Last breath before the sirens
“Can you state your emergency?” “There’s been a lung collision.” He’s stealing your breath, darling I can’t feel your lungs What an aberration, forced to bleed the river of an emotion You were never taught to feel growing up I think nobody told you how to feel a colour so hard Crimson on your neck, on your chest But I cannot find a wound Your breath feels like knives But it’s funny, you’re dying You’re trying to tell me something It sounds like the kind of thing you would say right at sunset Slurring your sevens like you have mints on your tongue But you are only gasping for air Marble gazes Your eyes are lolling back They are the same eyes that have cut through me The same eyes I’ve always thought were beautiful When you were sad You are weak and you are failing Completely unlike the times You would walk in like a sandstorm No less powerful than a serpent Beautiful Now you are trying to speak “Feels like a fishbone dislodged in my lungs” And you laugh You are laughing and you are dying And this night still feels like day I tried scraping out the difference Between guilt and self-loathe But the answer only lies on the blade of this knife Maybe I could tell you I don’t know what I did with it The reason we are not sure from which wound This blood is seeping from It wasn't just a lung collision It was the explosion of a galaxy in your chest When your ribs bent and cracked Now they are broken, dust You are breathing in rust But it does not matter because you are dying In the distance there is the sound of sirens They are coming and they might be far too late.
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Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015 at 8:45 AM UTC
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