Remind Me Not to Ever

May 17, 2008 04:46

Circling again, oh dear, when will you learn these ferocious skies? Red is an omen, a murder is a witness, and together wings will wither to skin, to the muscle, to the bone. Deliverance! Deliverance! But only to the righteous, and you know you the viscousness of only looking up. Descending, igniting. Ashes; throw them around. Smear your face, blur out your eyes. Now who stands, and now who f-

Don't say you never heard a voice, I've been screaming for years. And what for? Even after all this time we're worse than we began, and strangers aren't in envy for their ignorance. If I never saw the tabletop see your elbows, if I never wrote you back, if I never said c-

Miles of silence, I've ripped the phone out of the wall. Photographs peeled and dissolved in a bucket in my backyard. I threw the remains in the river. And now when will you call me your home? I changed the locks, in the sickening cliche way bitter lovers part, in the way we never were. Another notch in the wall, another brick to the head, another split in my s-
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