10-19-17

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It

snatches me up

crunching my bones

and crushing me down

to 

make me fit

its taste of pain.


wait in its' stomach

marinating in the hurt


until

I am so starved for air

I claw my way from

the root of grief

Out of the beast

to 

bathe in the sunlight and oxygen again.

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