content warning: intense feeling, some potentially unpleasant metaphor, very stream-of-consciousness<\/p>\n
i’ve got words i’ve got words
\ni’ve got so many words they’re
\nbursting out of me it’s wildfire it’s fireworks
\nit’s sparking i am consumed by what’s inside of me
\nit’s everything it’s all i know i am
\nwords, painted, carved from my skin
\nmy bone my blood – i am words,
\nand nothing more than that – i am words
\ni am filled to the brim with words i am overflowing
\nwith words all i have is words and i will
\nscream them out into the nothing.
\nat the end of the day i am only a wraith,
\na ghoul, a ghost, a temporary placeholder
\nfor what is meant to be – that’s why i’m words,
\ncrumbling, falling down, burning me inside-out
\nthese words cannot express, cannot explain
\nemotion is a mimicry and i am an excellent mimic,
\na parrot, learning my own new words to
\ncreate some music, some lyrics, something
\nthat can ground me – save me – damn me –
\ni use my words like a weapon and a shield,
\nuse my words like violence like biting like pain
\nand i hold them like a panacea to every little cut
\ni’ve ever felt and somehow, something,
\nin all of these words
\nheals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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