tell me more, about the nights you can't
sleep and
the days you waste sleeping and rotting in your bed that's
reeking of rancid sweat and your perfume.
tell me more, about the hours you waste
picking at your skin and nails and teeth and hair until you
bleed and haven't got anything left to pick at but sores.
tell me more, about your visions of
god and his following and the devil's footsteps and
government conspiracy that comes for you specifically when
you haven't the slightest idea why.
tell me more, about your background chatter of
conversations you can't piece together and
idle noises and nuisances that ruin your day.
tell me more, a
his hands are cold as death on their cheeks
the exhale keeps soft, the exhale is singular warmth to themselves
they don't look up.
they don't want to look up-
looking up was the admittance of defeat.
eyes bleary, the smile is weak, the mouth of a doe-deer bloodied,
kissing smugness on the mouth with soft lips-
sweetness, your horns are showing,
they murmur, the smile bloodied,
he, a demon in the flesh of a man in a suit,
laughs.
as are yours, deer,
as though his puns are still funny
when they're alone
and it's too dark
to continue to breathe
and they're suffocated
by the absolute silence that lay
between them.
because you claim to be a shell
disgusting and revolting
and filled with a want to die
step away from the desk and
leave your warm home.
step into the outside and feel the air
step on the pavement and run your feet raw
your lungs will burn and ache
and you'll fall asleep
and wake up somewhere in someone's yard
scream your lungs raw
run your feet raw
jump from the balcony and
before you die,
feel pain from the outside
and starken the contrast of physical and feeling
learn relief and give it time
before you die,
feel
and learn what it means to live.
when i think about you
i cry
there isn't bitterness nor is there
any sadness just a sense of remorse and a lot of
'i miss you a lot,' and
'i love you so much,' and
'please stay healthy and happy.'
when i think about you i want to
gush and tell the nearest person
about your absolute majesty and that
you're absolutely
lovely
and the temptation
to get teary-eyed
comes up
it's an overwhelming sense of love and adoration,
admiration at its sides and edges, fluffly and
wide-mouthed grinning, with
giggling under my breath when i try
to get the words out
to describe
your majesty and that you're
lovely
when i think about you
i want to cry
you were precise
legs up at an angle, chin
angled to the side
smile, sweetheart, you're on
camera
you were immaculate
teeth glimmering white your bones
were glass and your skin
was bone china tougher than
the bones inside your body
and exoskeleton for a
caricature of a person
you were pristine
rouge and paint and laquer
hit you in the face too hard with
too much perfume enough to make you
want to gag out absolutely nothing
while you played at tea with
the idea of being
you were perfect
fingers drenched in viscous,
congealed
found-her-too-late blood
you muttered to yourself that you wouldn't
be so messy
next time you
you were
you only wanted to help
bright eyed and bushy-tailed and
shaking in the fingertips
and sometimes your lower lip
bit out and salt-cracked
you opened your mouth and admitted
you only wanted to help
a touch more nervous and still
bright as ever
(may the sun one day reach your eyes again)
you smiled brightly and leaned to a side
the epitome of naivety and innocence
and told us
for your life's goals
you only wanted to help
driven and motivated and
outgoing as ever,
in the midst of foreign lands,
always some source of inspiration for those
around you, tongues be damned
you told them in your broken speaking that
you were here as
you only w
you are, simply- existing
have not left the house in
who knows how long and have not
spoken to anyone but those among your home in
who knows how long and do not
want to change any time soon
despite having too many opportunities to do so
and the potential to do things
to further yourself
into something better
believe me, when i tell you
it might've been good for you
i am tired and surrounded by
immense confusion
(on the matter of myself, yourself, and the rest of us out here)
and i will not go to bed
until i am quite sure that the darkness is not palpable
and there is nothing there
because no matter how long it's been
i am still terrified of the dark
i am tired and surrounded by
paranoia rising and falling in something reminiscently bellicoso
the fear of things unknown and the fear of things known and the idea
that you cannot trust
even the people
you want to call friends
i am tired and drowning in pools of
honeyed tea and sadness that i might
not make anything for myself and absurd fear of the fut