MeA Poem by LanaI sculpted my words so that they sound nicer I thought I should look pretty when I confess my murder And still, the lights from the window are blinding I sit in the car watching, Never daring to get out of it And knock on the door of a semi-stranger (Semi-friendship; a relation with no real definition) And confess my murder. I eroded the metal of my words; There are tiny brownish-red spots now. I want to cry. I feel a big bowl of time passing me by, And I eat it and eat it and eat it. I am starving for what is not mine. I look down, and I have no intestines, No hunger for time. I don't chase it; I don't regret it. Now people ask me, but do you search for it? I grind my teeth all day, I bite my nails, and I never talk to semi-friends. What is the point? Where is my shame? I am alone, and I'm young and pretty. This little voice inside me sometimes says to me, Go on, go and live! No, I don't search for it Time, life, space They elude me. I always sit in my car and watch the lights from the windows, From the kitchens of people Who have a warm meal and people to share it with. And I knock. I knock when it's a stranger, And I sculpt my words for them. Only lately, the metal is damaged. It's not as sharp, as brilliant and silver as it used to be. I have lost my will. I switch to wood. You could refer to my words as carpentry. I let go of the decorative; I don't really sculpt anymore. I just cut the wood in half. I let my finger bleed, And it's all for me. Me. I cut it all for me.
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