Adorn

if it hurts me will i let it go
or hold on to my words as
an arsenal. so if i see you 
today and am in no mood to
play you will know you did 
something wrong, just by the
way my silence lingers.

hooking through my fingers, yours
like the lace expensive in the window
still unattainable to adorn this
dressing down deserved or was it
me being silly and ashamed to admit it
your superior smirk shirks my ability
to lose it, tied to my pride, tied to you

everything i do is mirror image of 
a line seductive in fast forward, and
then the crash. that last. would it be
jagged and sentence fragment finally
spoken. broken elements all the table
periodic silences drive me in deeper
i won't hear the confessions and these
words i'll doubt if they're mine. you
hand me the rind, you know, the piece
left when your flesh was spent. 

i've known patience to hold on to hope
but the dawn is daunting in comparison,
every darkness the sun pales to shadow
and yours is long and thin, and mine is
lost in the black where your arm bends.

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[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

each stanza paints a fluid movement of expressive emotions as the reader skims the surface and sinks her mind deeper into the underlayers of beautifully drawn relatable disclosures~