night troubles - petit biscuit.
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'take these words and decorate them around my neck' you said,
'use them as a leash,
a way in which to reach out to me even,'
a tranquil tone laced around your voice,
'lay them ever so delicately against my
quivering skin
and kiss your favourite letters;
be careful not to swallow,' you said,
'because although the words are ever so pretty,
ever so wonderful,
they can be dangerous,
and they can hurt.' you concluded.
but i didn't take your advice.
n o,
i swallowed the letters eagerly and greedily and
allowed them to consume me,
i winced as they travelled down my drying
closing throat and into my acidic decaying
stomach;
creating a home where there were hurricanes
and monsters.
you tried to recover the letters,
your fingertips ablaze and your breaths panicked
and heavy,
but you couldn't because they had already
nestled lovingly into my veins.
the blood that circulated around my beautiful,
bruised and naked body had already become
engaged with these words
and i sunk into your bare chest in nothing but
defeat interlocked with exhaustion,
your erratic heartbeat poundpoundpounding
and thudthudthudding against my delicate
eardrums,
i guess you could say we were scared as the
lions shook in disapproval
and the earth trembled in remorse.
you cried and cried in my arms;
whispering a few apologies here and there;
'what have you done?' you gasped,
i could hear the heartache that coated your voice,
it happened too quick one would say,
even you couldn't stop it,
it was bound to happen either way i suppose.
'don't' you screamed out to me,
but it was too late.
i had already slashed my wrists and out poured
the letters coated in my
thick pure blood one by one.
'p
a
p
e
r.
love hurts.'
they read.
and to that you sighed 'i know' as you carefully placed the pads of your fingers against each letter and set them on fire.
it felt as though my heart had been wrenched from my sleeve and trampled on; your footprints marking what was once yours.
YOU ARE READING
crushed.
Poesiacrushed words pieced together; superglued by the sun, the moon, and all the single galaxies combined with the stars as well as the butterflies and the lions.
