Infected

I - can’t - breathe

Bitterness like poison gas

Slip on the mask

That fits like a skull

Clattering and shattering my skin

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Rain strikes me - icicles on my bones

Cracking me open.

Life has me pinned down so long

I Don’t remember what it’s like to stand up.

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Do you remember the suspended seconds?

Those moments leading up to the almost kiss

That never happened and never will

But somewhere it did -

Within me.

Another time

Another us

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I will never stop loving you -

Despite the years and spaces,

The breaths and places,

The notes and the choices that pull us further

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My thoughts infect me,

Colonize me.

The daydreams breed within me

Until they are memories of their own making

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We all go off the cliff sometimes.

Sometimes I leap.