You love like a noose
I'm on firm ground
and then suddenly I'm falling.
Only you can catch me
and when you do it takes my breath away.
My last minutes spent
in your too tight embrace.

every night i hear my brother's tortured cries in his sleep
every day i watch my sister as she pretends to eat
sometimes i wonder is everyone like this down deep
sometimes i wish i didn't have to keep pressing repeat

our parents tell us to believe in broken things
like unicorns and wishes on shooting stars
why do they fill the world with magic
now I cannot stop looking

We don't stand a change.
It's all eventually no thing.
Everything ends in a circle.

peeling back my skin
now my body is outside in
following the veins
blood spreading into a stain
around me pooling into the carpet
the droplets not letting me forget
what the pain will illuminate
the truth, something discovered too late

Forgotten notes lie at the bottom of bags
along with broken pencils
bits of dirt

forgotten words, prayers
continually trampled
deeper and deeper they sink
as work is piled higher and higher
compressing into one

uncrumple them
unscramble the faded letters
before
at the end of the year they are swept up
into the trash
recycled to pulp and reborn

They still linger there
with the gum wrappers
and discarded things
you cannot throw out
until you have forgot them