I dare you to play my heartstrings,
strong as spiderweb silk.
Your presence runs through me like
rusty barbed wire,
a screaming putrescence.
My heart corrodes and heals in waves,
taking and giving.
I let your name gather dust.
I watch the crackled paint details peel,
marred remnants deteriorate.
I feel you forget me like a childhood memory.
I release the heavy syllables of you into the sky,
each sound and memory sailing like dandelion dust,
waiting to land and grow in safer spaces.
Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 8:31 PM UTC
I dare you to play my heartstrings,
strong as spiderweb silk.
Your presence runs through me like
rusty barbed wire,
a screaming putrescence.
My heart corrodes and heals in waves,
taking and giving.
I let your name gather dust.
I watch the crackled paint details peel,
marred remnants deteriorate.
I feel you forget me like a childhood memory.
I release the heavy syllables of you into the sky,
each sound and memory sailing like dandelion dust,
waiting to land and grow in safer spaces.
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