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snow in a nutella jar

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you said i was making it harder
than it had to be

it took all of your strength to resist me

i was desperate, trying to hold on to
you with the strong, crooked fingers of
she who writes

but i hadn't realized i was trying
to hold onto something that wasn't
there, something already gone

one body minus one spirit equals
one odd lonely girl
                    who will keep on
                                   waiting
~

Relax
let the chilled northern air
fill your lungs and clense you
rejuvinate
because i know better than
anyone else what a battered
soul you are
{an abandoned
house, beams exposed,
haunted by a
conglomeration
of self-inflicted
demons.}

you need(ed) renewal
you need(ed) the chance to begin again
~

i remember
the rhythm of your fire-heart
the way it's flame creeped
up into your eyes and smoldered
whispering through knowing smiles
like two beings afraid to be
caught in love's stranglehold
love's headlights
between love's deadly,
pourous teeth

i remember
your pulse rate
your respirations
per minute, every
detail that constructs
you i've recorded on the
skin stretched over my
abdomen, but this skin
isn't mine, my sweet
chimera

(you've branded me with your falsified touch)

i remember
writing "i love you"
on the sole of your shoe
but being too afraid to
condemn myself by
saying those three
incriminating words
out loud, neither one
of us daring to make
the first move

i remember
when you turned away without
saying good-bye and how ugly
you looked walking away from me
~

but now you've left behind
the place you left me for

here you are

every last hair and limb and awkward compliment in place

you never run out of ways to amaze me
~

i'm glad we have the chance
to make new memories
   
                     together

i love the ones i've already collected
and i won't let my
past define my future
i won't expect a single thing
i will not search, just find

and i will be happy
(in theory)
~

i cannot wait to set out
funeral pyres adrift
on the sea of melted snow
you brought back home
in a nutella jar

i cannot wait to store
your recollection
in a skull full of
formaldihide

i cannot wait
to hold your hand
and brace myself
agianst love, and
sadness, and destiny,
and every derailed
train with disfunctional
brakes coming towards us
with intentions to sever
(reality)

i cannot wait, for there isn't time, only a fleeting NOW
true story
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