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  Mar 2020 Someday
Carla
They say when sick in a moving vehicle,
it is best to watch the horizon as it comes in and out of focus.

Watch it as emotions well up to the point of sickness.
Just sit and watch as trees pass your peripheral.
Trying to conceal the sickness,
trying to not let it come up to the surface.
But it stays.
It brews and stirs.

The car rumbles on and
silence
screams louder than ever before.

Don’t disturb the silence.

That’s what she tells herself.

Don’t let your breaking breaths and
muffled cries
disturb the nature of the car.


Liquid daggers rain down from the windows.
You can no longer see her soul
as it has crumbled down to
the particle it started as.

Not a seed,
just a speck.

These daggers drop in

deathly,
dreary
silence,

they dance

down

until they reach a

dead-end.
Nowhere else to go,
only more drop.

The windows have been

cracked.

No amounts of duct tape
can fix this.


Nothing left to do except sit and watch the horizon.
Someday Sep 2019
I shift and I twist
And my thoughts twist away
And I shift to someone different
When I'm in front of you.

I shift and I twist
And my words twist away
And I twist to someone different
When you ask me why.

You shift and you twist
And your thoughts twist away
And I know you shift to someone else
When you're in front of me.

You shift and you twist
And your words twist away
And I smile through my mask
At the mask you show me
And I don't ask why.
"Everyone wears a mask," she says
And I think, "We'll be friends alright"
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