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Keepers of My Hearti.Keepers of My Heart by ~intricately-ordinary
you are in love with being in love
like you're caught on the train tracks,
tied down by want, waiting for that
insistent collision to
steal you away into the land
of concussions and self-medication
and hearts that barely heal
ii.
and stories confessing the notches
in your bedpost, the lines in
your smile. the sour note in your
liberally dissonant melody.
iii.
you did not want tangibility
cotton trees cascading and butterfly
innards, serenading clouds and
fluorescent lips
(until the sky came crashing down
and you reoriented the earth)
iv.
you did not want me
v.
I am solid and as notable as
the ghosts sleeping in y
wet scribbles, tattooed tragedyI am shedding my skinwet scribbles, tattooed tragedy by *DearPoetry
like the poetry that bleeds
from your ink-cracked lips
onto the bare bones of my
anatomy.
Unfold these moon-shy limbs
that chase silence
& beg stay-with-me.
For you are the only verse
hidden within this labyrinth
of scar-damaged flesh.
Sta.sh
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