ripping off...

[tough_as_glass]

he being Forbidden

eyes tossing themselves
like seas
fingers clenching
hands into fists
because it cannot be

breath a grasping
strangle
wanting life like a fish
or a dying
land animal

unwrap them one by one
give the white
knuckled fingers
something else
to hold

back and back
the wall is harder
than stone
but soft
comparison

hair like grass
roots like
gentle pain
tug again and
again

fall like lava
land in the
abyss
of molten glowing
spheres

spread and flail
fall further
into the earth
because there's always
more to melt

dance in fear
it is a clever place
you've come to
can't go back
must rush

churn
your rush a
solemn sort of
apocalypse in the haste of
marks on the road

single-handedly
taking down
the stairs that
tear you
apart

one
.
two
.
one

there is no hurry anymore