A shallow gaze
was enough to uncover the
opaquely pain-glazed heart that
carried mountains of sorrow & melancholy
lifted the weight of all
the ocean has in store
as epochs of misery blurred out your vision
of what your body carried which is
more than its tangible heft
engraved cuts, too muddied to make out the
words they wrote
as the stretch of your skin
fell frail against your frame
like drapery on an easel
what has become of your soul
when its light had been so dimmed it's
now flickering like your rapid dreams
you no longer have seams
what was it like before they turned your
flares into mere flames
and your sunny weather
a raging storm
I see beyond the horizon a glimmer of
a child once born free until
the ropes pulled tighter and told you to
-be-
before it all came to this
before your eyes landed on me
what do your wings hide between the
folds of each feather
why does your tongue lie so graciously
do untangle your fields of memories
set them ablaze and unto the clouds of
smoke you breathe
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