If everything was declassified in your own life, and they could only tell you the truth, what would you want to know?
In fifty years
as you untangle trauma soup?
..
Did you ever love me?
What did I mean to you?
Actually, that’s never going to be a
good question
I know all the answers to
my big questions
I’m looking to blame you for my striking
Negating me, with your proof
..
I want answers to all the
ponderings that will beat me up
Whipping up the rubble
I wallowed, sunk into solitary soup
..
Strike me with melancholy
and misery
How could I ?
Or, why didn’t I, trust?
Chunks of too cold
Too hot, too hungry
Fingertips frying
with the embers of us
..
Should I report him?
Can I have a concrete memory A-B-C?
Tender flames, learning to be
smothered
The smoky, taste of vile
He lives in my consciousness
The bonfire to my intimacy
.
Within shifty eyes
Always dry
I made believe,
that those lungs only grew on me
Dry, to opposite of my, same,
eyes -
Glazed, when I water,
in the sizzle of
never free
..
You poke with a baking
iron rod
Acceptance, which dashes
in cycles once again
The flowers of the bronchioles
When you turn coal powders
and cooling vapours,
soft now,
into friends
..
You shift into my consciousness
The he’s and disbeliefs that found
home in my bones
The she’s ..
Could they not love me
either?
Their facts slice my limbs up
For my (and their) cartilage,
and for my fire damage
I need to atone
shame, sorry, self-blame, tara poetry
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