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An “It’s too late” Poem: #Novpad Day 18

No Place

There is no place
for this-

soft release of my
own self into arms
that hold
and just hold,

small curl into his space
to be seen
to be free,

yielding of skin
with fear that
has finally softened,

as my focus melts
his eyes and
now I can only
see my own.

No, there is no place
for this-
lock up
and
retreat,

cracked and shadowed
sanctuary of
memory

within me
between us

And I wonder
in sadness
in fear, in anger

If this time

Is the time

to go.

Alone.

prompted @ November 2011 PAD: Day 18


Something About Bones

Something about bones
spreading like hard spider webs
across my chest
speak of a dark time
in a solitary cell.

He visits me there
my bones will ache cold
as I lay silent, contorted
on my sleepless bed.

Listen to him
drunk, stumbling at the door
my body recollects
the times blazing with poison
becoming too much.

I skitter away
only to return; naked
trusting cocaine tears.

Conceded to all
and my anger is rising
to boil off his skin.

Never said no -

but there’s something about bones
spreading thin with him.

 

 

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