*Static electricity is an imbalance
of electric charges*
If your words are so weightless
why is it so hard to let go?
maybe love is static electricity
a transfer
in hopes of striking a balance.
erratic exchange
back and forth
insults and compliments
good and bad
*static electric charge is created
when two surfaces contact and separate,
and one of the surfaces
has a high resistance to electrical current*
you got more than you gave
******* insulator
contact and separate
contact
separate
you left me, a hot wire
waiting to explode
starving for peace
and your lies are rubber balloons
sticking to my cotton heart
cloth grown thin from trying to scrape past
the rough edges of broken promises
and the more I try to wipe the lies
to see them clearly
the more they cling to me.
Like poison
I feel myself dying slowly
you are killing me
without even touching me,
the hair on my arms rising
from the chill of what you've become
Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 9:52 PM UTC
*Static electricity is an imbalance
of electric charges*
If your words are so weightless
why is it so hard to let go?
maybe love is static electricity
a transfer
in hopes of striking a balance.
erratic exchange
back and forth
insults and compliments
good and bad
*static electric charge is created
when two surfaces contact and separate,
and one of the surfaces
has a high resistance to electrical current*
you got more than you gave
******* insulator
contact and separate
contact
separate
you left me, a hot wire
waiting to explode
starving for peace
and your lies are rubber balloons
sticking to my cotton heart
cloth grown thin from trying to scrape past
the rough edges of broken promises
and the more I try to wipe the lies
to see them clearly
the more they cling to me.
Like poison
I feel myself dying slowly
you are killing me
without even touching me,
the hair on my arms rising
from the chill of what you've become
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