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The past hurts like an ocean made up of opaque glass. And you asked me to exist within the shatter-jagged fragments. An amphibious creature, Breathing the pain through shredded gills. Numbed, bruised and bleeding. Wounds are what they called them. Battle torn from a thousand different edges. Don't you feel them?   The watery shards wedging into your sides,   Piercing your lungs of the will to exhale. I feel it, like rough hands upon my neck;   Tearing through my flesh.     Slipping down my throat. Till I'm choking on red. You asked, and I confessed. My passions, the black and the blue. Inhaling the wine-water, I want to save you. Even with an ocean of glass standing in my way. I want to save you. Swimming and swimming, until this agony bled away. I wanted to save you. Even though I knew I couldn't. I wanted to be the one to save you.
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Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 8:15 PM UTC
Opaque Glass.
The past hurts like an ocean made up of opaque glass. And you asked me to exist within the shatter-jagged fragments. An amphibious creature, Breathing the pain through shredded gills. Numbed, bruised and bleeding. Wounds are what they called them. Battle torn from a thousand different edges. Don't you feel them?   The watery shards wedging into your sides,   Piercing your lungs of the will to exhale. I feel it, like rough hands upon my neck;   Tearing through my flesh.     Slipping down my throat. Till I'm choking on red. You asked, and I confessed. My passions, the black and the blue. Inhaling the wine-water, I want to save you. Even with an ocean of glass standing in my way. I want to save you. Swimming and swimming, until this agony bled away. I wanted to save you. Even though I knew I couldn't. I wanted to be the one to save you.
Nickel
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Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 8:15 PM UTC
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