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girl diffused Oct 2017
how does everything feel so whole
& yet so empty?
how do you fill everything
with a gaze, fleeting
how do you question everything
with a quirked brow, a pursed lip?

how do you fill everything
with a surety in an outstretched
hand, should i place mine
in your palm, should i answer your
questions with a small smile?

fill your sadness into my vessel,
take your pain into my bones?
let it settle like it's nestled
in a home of enamel and dried blood?

how do you repair a fractured heart?
with whispered promises
against the nape? with late-night
proclamations and ramblings,
locked secrets from deep within
the corridors of our minds

should we reside in head-space
or pulsing heart? should we etch
a title into skin and teeth or leave
them unmarked? i wonder...
i wonder ...
I dug this up from the archives of "Ye Olde Facebook." Been a few days, might as well share something. I wasn't sure of it then and I'm not sure of it now. I'm also not sure of the headspace I was in prior to composing this piece. Ah well, leave your comments as always and enjoy.

xoxo
girl diffused Oct 2017
you tried to feed
me stardust
sway and hold me
as we danced

you tried to make a home
out of me
open my shutters
let the light
flood inside
push sheer magenta
curtains aside

you tried to run
your fingers reverently
over my rosewood

you tried to ***** my home
raise it from the island
kiss my lips after broken
storms hold my hands in your own convince me that you  replaced my old
broken doors
peeling paint and vinyl siding

you tried to
feed me stardust
sway and hold me
as we danced

you tried to make
a home out of me
but I was really an island
ready to be claimed
by the fire and the sea
girl diffused Oct 2017
i was never quite the same
after your leaving.
inside you broke glass
They leave you with all of the wreckage to pick up, theirs, yours, and everything else from the aftermath of your meeting and parting. You sit and wonder...after the piecing back together if it could come back together again.

You numb yourself and shove the thought away. You write every thought out as it comes, listen to the same songs, talk to your family, read poetry obsessively, try to get back to some shadow--some remnant of your former self. You try to admit, outside of your writing life, that you are okay.

You try to admit that their leaving is permanent but your mind screams from some deep unreachable place that it's temporary. This is where your pain resides.

Rinse and repeat.
Xoxo
  Oct 2017 girl diffused
Lauren Leal
"You are now simply a dream, so it may seem."
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