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Open Poetry #38
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elisalie16
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since 2006-07-12
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new jersey

0 posted 2006-08-25 06:02 AM



words are gorgeous
because they have to be to ease our minds.
they don't match eyes
which always manage to stop our hearts.

windows sure gleam,
and a blade so small
can dice apart a promise
faster than your pupils can expand in awe.

your voice was always torn apart
and soothing as we looked towards hell.
it's hard to understand
how hands stay strong when spirits are weak.

she's gonna sit on that floor
wrecked and held together by
shining bright skin
and bleeding black eyes.

these girls keep breaking
into bent legs and covered ears
bowing their chins to meet their chests
screaming to be left alone
so that they can be saved.

pull those covers up a little higher
and shiver and shake into a sleep
as the white of this room  
blends into a fuzzy dulled pink
and with a flash of black
eases into yellow at the count of seven.

the sun shines so softly through lace
and harshens through delicate eyes.
the curtains are fluttering
but we're craning our necks
to stare at the doors we've locked.

her body's so aesthetic
but looks so faint and starved in this light
as her bones are piercing through at the corners.
those eyes hold such an elegence
but crease with exhaustion on an hourly basis.
she has to drop her arms now.

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