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Some You May Not See
I feel like
you are surrounded by
all that isn’t you,
and what I can’t seem to find
is who you are,
I mean,
What you’re truly made of,
Without all the static
And sorrow
That circles around you
Like a forcefield.
And when you speak,
I can see
Sounds slithering
Through the cracks of your teeth,
Turning this way and that,
Til they make their way out of the maze
You’ve carved in your
Throat.
Sometimes
I hear your words
Echo from my ears
To my mind
And I can feel
distance,
In “mother”
and
“home”
And I feel you carry out
The words
“love”
And
“future”
With gentle pressure,
You don’t want them to fall,
Although you’re sure they will,
And your eyes slip down
To the very floor
And you search for the words you’ve spoken
That have dropped off the cliffs
of your lips
And you think that no one will
Ever find them.
I hope to have the eyes to see
The ghosts that cling to your ribcages
Like gum on old wooden chairs,
I wish to have the ears to resonate
With the sleepless voices
Hanging off your eyelashes,
The only time I’ve seen those
Voices
Sing
Is when they fly off your eyes
As teardrops,
Coating your cheeks
With symphonies.
Some may fold you up
And label you
As
“lost”
But I think
You know exactly where you are.
It may take some time
but
The fog
always
settles.
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