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Mistook your niceness, for kindness Couldn’t draw a line between the two For my pencil had become too blunt And my paper - too thick - to tear through My eraser too pliable and worn Kneaded down to a waning pulp I tried shaping into a kind of moon But instead made a waxing fault That grows wider between the sternum Carves me down the middle - twofold Fleshy mounds of ****** grief Unable to bridge back the whole Pictures now lie placid, dormant Stacked neatly, one atop the last Withering - light-fast - fading From memory, it’ll pass.
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Nov 26, 2024
Nov 26, 2024 at 3:07 AM UTC
Erasing the Muse
Mistook your niceness, for kindness Couldn’t draw a line between the two For my pencil had become too blunt And my paper - too thick - to tear through My eraser too pliable and worn Kneaded down to a waning pulp I tried shaping into a kind of moon But instead made a waxing fault That grows wider between the sternum Carves me down the middle - twofold Fleshy mounds of ****** grief Unable to bridge back the whole Pictures now lie placid, dormant Stacked neatly, one atop the last Withering - light-fast - fading From memory, it’ll pass.
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24/Non-binary/South London
Nov 26, 2024
Nov 26, 2024 at 3:07 AM UTC
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