Related to one of my favorite lines: “come up with the fire, in the deadly 5th dimension pyre.” Here it goes:<\/p>\n
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it’s not blood staining your hand,<\/p>\n
some ruby red lie that came up from the throat<\/p>\n
to drown your world in all its sentiments,<\/p>\n
I second guess every living thing in your veins,<\/p>\n
When I waste away when I count days and struggle in the distance.<\/p>\n
I resurrect every third day like some sort of deity,<\/p>\n
only the thorns on top of my skull are the funeral drone of your aftermath.<\/p>\n
I shake away and bleed, when the spear came to cut you deep,<\/p>\n
and I saw angels burst from your skin, and the demons came to sin on your lips,<\/p>\n
and \u00a0come from your mouth and cum from your mouth,<\/p>\n
and envelope you in compressed thoughts.<\/p>\n
I hold the lot of ticking time and I burn the bodies so the dead don’t speak our secrets.<\/p>\n
I lifted myself from your rib-cage prison and dare ask your name on the release.<\/p>\n
I often dismiss you when I’m drinking because you dismissed me in the shrinking feelings,<\/p>\n
though they never shrink, they’re hidden some place, only the ghosts whisper their claims to that land.<\/p>\n
I come up with the flame, and I spell your name as though this could be our engraved headstone,<\/p>\n
of all the things that we were afraid to say, like some ritual that we lost the words to.<\/p>\n
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