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choking on whispers.

 
 
It's within  
whispers  
where I live  
 
Numbed by wave  
after palpable wave  
tortured quietude  
bashing against shores  
of jagged ignorance  
 
My own asininity  
how I  
rage and rage  
 
So blind to inevitably  
deaf to days louder  
than any argument  
or accusations  
of who's to blame  
 
only pregnant silence  
 
knowledge that the sea  
safely keeps  
within each cresting wave's crash  
 
Blaming the death  
of what's possible  
on the hands of time,
circumstance,  
willingness
or truths  
turned to fools gold  
 
To be so hardened  
in bold  
 
Burn, you sacred flesh  
illuminate
these lonely nights
so hollow   and empty

Leaving a heart  
ashy  
unrecognizably singed  
lungs struggling  
of forgotten soot  
 
Choking on
all that
forsaken fire  
 
 
 
 
 
Written by Bluevelvete
Published | Edited 17th Mar 2023
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