Adoxography

how to prevent emotional decay

1, forget the number and the name that once had a heart by it's

side remember the voice mail won't sound like a healing touch because

putting your happiness on one person gives the same results as putting

a train on a broken track.

 

2, change the locks hide the key and leave the door closed when

the dark comes knocking asking to come back in because sometimes

mouths can speak lies so you forget your next play and the demons at

the door think your fear is a game.

 

3, know that flinching from touch like your skin is paper

thin will only help the fire to catch and burn you alive and holding

breath when the air hurts will only let smoke build and oxygen to die

leaving a scream in your throat and burnt out lungs.

 

4, stop leaving your pain inside your bones and hiding it

there to crumble and decay because false hope and hidden hurt rooted

into flimsy pieces of marrow will only work until the day they start

to get too heavy and the white begins to crack.

 

5, don't hide glassy eyes or wet cheeks with drawn on dimples

across your face because holding onto the tsunami in the corner of an

eye can only work until the dames break and the waves crashing down

threaten to swallow you whole.

 

6, start spewing your emotions at 3am to the wind the stars and

the moon because although you cannot yet trust people with voices who

can spill your sins holding it in is like letting toxic into your

heart and poison into your veins.

 

7, let yourself shatter and fall apart and turn your limbs

into shards that will cut and hurt it helps to learn who will only

touch your broken body with pinched finger tips and who will fix you

with their bear and now blood soaked hands.

 

8, remember that holding yourself with duct tape and glue and

digging your nails into your skin and ‘forgetting’ about your night

terrors will only turn you from skin and bones to an empty shell to

 particles in the sky and a slab on the ground.