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Please Say Something

tell me again    
it will be alright,
because back to    
normal  
is starting to feel  
a lot like a place  
I’ve never been    
   
my lungs    
are antique iron,  
rusted and unforgiving;  
constricted    
like my heart,  
compressed tightly  
beyond my ability    
to breathe deep  
by a world    
full of intentions  
I can’t ever seem  
to recover from    
completely    
   
muscles and tendons    
that refuse to relax,  
screaming obscenities;  
dull, tarnished swords    
always at the ready,  
on guard against    
imminent attack    
by foreign armies,  
never bothering  
to hold up the mirror    
that would show them    
their own angry faces    
staring back    
   
that raw burn    
when I fell asleep  
in the blazing    
south Florida sun  
revisits it’s memory  
down my useless body  
(tales of poor judgement    
by a fourth grade nothing),  
and it solidly fucks me up    
in my  
already unbelievable mind  
to look at blistering skin  
~surely my eyes are liars~  
finding nothing;    
no point of origin    
for my pain  
   
so tell me again  
it will be alright,  
because I keep forgetting;  
I’m begging you  
for all those speeches  
about how this will pass;  
please say something  
even if your words  
come out like sandpaper  
against glass -  
painful and ineffective  
to your own ears;  
they sound like balm  
to mine  
   
say anything at all,  
so I can pretend  
~I’ve got this~  
while I hang on tightly    
to your every word  
in my desperation,    
my greedy hope;  
remind me    
to keep swimming  
parallel to the shore    
until I find myself  
free of this    
exhausting riptide  
and can finally point    
my way back    
to normal    
Written by LunaGreyhawk
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Author's Note
I’m thankful for the fact that I always forget the intensity of a flare in the in-between.
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