open [final cut]

.•° ✿ °•.

I’m an open wound

my body is a corpse

I’ve been dead for decades

drowning in divorce

.

polished by accolades

down in harbor bay

its where the city lays

.

I can smell the rats

as my body decays

now’s not the time for charades

my grave’s been laid

.

.

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it gets hard to breathe

just you and just me

with no way of breaking free

.

there’s more that escalates to aggravate

a means of survival

That tunnels that irrigate your blood

To the mouth of this cave

Im in

°•. ✿ .•°

.

✽

❅

❆

.

stuck inside the bathroom

on top of a toilet

stuck in mid moment, trying to escape

.

.

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it’s been a decade or so

my soul still roams like a ghost

I wait

for someone to open a window

let me out of here

so I don’t have to see me naturally decompose

.

.

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I can’t scream with shutters on my eyelids

and bars down my throat

I can’t scream coz I’ve been afraid, and nobody knows

.

I can’t scream with chain links for arteries

and a charcoal heart

I can’t scream with shadows that eat secrets

.

.

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dear

I’m nobody

so leave me alone

I’ve done everything I could

so

love

won’t you heed my words

and leave me alone

coz

I’ve done nobody any wrong

.

and

love

why can’t you see

I wasn’t made to be yours

.

and

love

my heart wasn’t made to bleed into the veins of another

so here I lay

forgotten

like waste on a train

a disgraced mother

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.

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love me or leave me

I’ve been left by the many

I don’t want your sympathy

.

I don’t want your pity

I don’t want your empathy

I don’t want your apathy

your sorrow kills me

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.

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inverted outliers kill out on the field

tell me what is doomed, don’t tell me what is real

I’m good at playing make believe

wouldn’t you say so

how’s my recovery

at least I’m not in a

�"

Khat, describing her depression and her occasional emotional absence in relationships

Reviews

[R.J Calzonetti (Siniste..]

I enjoy the rhyming that is occasional throughout the piece. I can feel the pain emanating from this poem, and it is very real for me in a way that is quite powerful. There is a sadness there. I can tell that you use poetry as an outlet for how you feel, and that is the same way with me. I have read plenty of your poems, and I believe this to be one of the ones I like most. The common theme is portrayed in a way that honest, true, and consistent throughout the poem. I like how you leave it to the reader to figure it out, you don't just give them the answers, they have to search for it. This is a way I find that pulls in the curious reader, and, in my opinion, enriches the story by giving them the tools to understand rather than simply have them watch as you give them the answer. There is a sense of excitement, learning and knowledge in such a poem. The reader will see their own truth within yours. Thank you for sharing.

[FaeryQueen]

thank you so muchfor your knid words, and thank you for requesting me to read your works,
read morethank you so muchfor your knid words, and thank you for requesting me to read your works,

im currently on 'life as a chessboard'

ive been loving your words recently

Khat

[R.J Calzonetti (SinisterPotatoe)]

No problem, keep up the writing!