When I eat my words
I eat them
with bitterness.
A whole
grape
of wine
couldn't encompass
the
sour seed of my soul.
I make promises
over the phone,
that I love you,
that whatever I did wrong
can be made right.
Just like those withered
scuppernogs
I think,
I can climb the vine
again.
But there is no
remedy
for a broken heart,
except pain,
and letting go.
So over dried tears,
I tear myself apart
over the thought of you.
Even in the burgeoning
night
full of fat storms,
I am malnourished,
and waiting by the phone
while my friends go out,
for your call.
Love isn't right,
or logical
or even compassionate.
Love is hateful,
but love
is
also love,
and the well-spring
of humanity
stems from that deep
acquifer
embedded in rock,
where you are the
drill
and
I am the spring-loaded
limestone
full
of
nourishment.
So bae,
come back someday,
let me climb the steel stairs
of your blue eyes,
because I've been out
and
about,
and other eyes have found mine,
but they have found nothing.
You have found
and mined
everything,
and I don't love them for finding nothing,
I love you
for your scouring
and
discerning heart.
So dismember me,
make me human,
I'd rather die mortal
than immortal
and
inhuman.
Mar 24, 2012
Mar 24, 2012 at 9:18 PM UTC
When I eat my words
I eat them
with bitterness.
A whole
grape
of wine
couldn't encompass
the
sour seed of my soul.
I make promises
over the phone,
that I love you,
that whatever I did wrong
can be made right.
Just like those withered
scuppernogs
I think,
I can climb the vine
again.
But there is no
remedy
for a broken heart,
except pain,
and letting go.
So over dried tears,
I tear myself apart
over the thought of you.
Even in the burgeoning
night
full of fat storms,
I am malnourished,
and waiting by the phone
while my friends go out,
for your call.
Love isn't right,
or logical
or even compassionate.
Love is hateful,
but love
is
also love,
and the well-spring
of humanity
stems from that deep
acquifer
embedded in rock,
where you are the
drill
and
I am the spring-loaded
limestone
full
of
nourishment.
So bae,
come back someday,
let me climb the steel stairs
of your blue eyes,
because I've been out
and
about,
and other eyes have found mine,
but they have found nothing.
You have found
and mined
everything,
and I don't love them for finding nothing,
I love you
for your scouring
and
discerning heart.
So dismember me,
make me human,
I'd rather die mortal
than immortal
and
inhuman.
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