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“I could if I wanted, you know?” I pirouetted Full tilt The room on its axis Spinning quickly Wound up Unwound top Rhythmically synchronized With my clenched gut Transfixed as You— Who had traced the edges Of me Mapped me Committed to memory – Morphed quickly Became unrecognizable Your identity Faded An old photograph Outlined and defined You frame everything I am Who once was a beacon Is now a shadow cast The coldest glance A knife kissing Cozying against my skin Alive, you still haunt me A shamble of what I thought A ghost of a man I’m Creased From your tricky hands NO Ringing gunshot Swimming through your ears Tell me, please, That’s why you couldn’t hear I am just a trail of smoke Dissipating now An ember When I once was a blaze Smothered by uninvited embrace I am fragmented But they say Every phoenix Rises from ash
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Apr 16, 2014
Apr 16, 2014 at 2:45 PM UTC
Phoenix
“I could if I wanted, you know?” I pirouetted Full tilt The room on its axis Spinning quickly Wound up Unwound top Rhythmically synchronized With my clenched gut Transfixed as You— Who had traced the edges Of me Mapped me Committed to memory – Morphed quickly Became unrecognizable Your identity Faded An old photograph Outlined and defined You frame everything I am Who once was a beacon Is now a shadow cast The coldest glance A knife kissing Cozying against my skin Alive, you still haunt me A shamble of what I thought A ghost of a man I’m Creased From your tricky hands NO Ringing gunshot Swimming through your ears Tell me, please, That’s why you couldn’t hear I am just a trail of smoke Dissipating now An ember When I once was a blaze Smothered by uninvited embrace I am fragmented But they say Every phoenix Rises from ash
#no#pheonix#overcoming
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Apr 16, 2014
Apr 16, 2014 at 2:45 PM UTC
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