1
We're on the verge of something beautiful.
Babe, I'm a poet.
In my head something expanded and exploded the moment
You decided to let go
Of the toothpick
That was holding your skin together.
There is something in peeling your skin off that
Tastes like your soul
And I would have it no other way.
I know you envision me as a predator and you're partly correct
But partly I'm sinking because
They don't tell you how slight and wanting raw is
They don't tell you that if we are on the brink of breaking
We are going to hope
Something larger than us dismantles and shifts in the sky
And all we can do is hold us together and pretend that
There is something greater than us
Something cosmic, something numbing, something soul-shifting
Something we are protecting.
2.
Tell me we'll never do normal again.
The stains on the edge of the table, the nail paint that spills over the edge,
That scratch on dry skin, that little one-inch gap in the window, Promise me we won't do normal again.
That tying down that daily schedule that waking up with definite knowledge the fill in the blanks we fill everyday with the same word our limited vocabulary
words more words
words to feed us when brokenness is starving us
hope we're going to collect like alms
tell me
we're
never
doing normal again.
Tell me we're drunk at the edge of a precipice, tell me being with you
Is being drunk on the edge of a precipice
Tell me your presence or your absence will mean one thing only:
I'll never know normal again.
3.
That thing about 'ever after' ...
No, I don't want you to give me a shoe on a fucking pillow
the fucking pillow is fucking bullshit
And you know glass shoes would fit me but I don't want to wear them.
I didn't ask for normal, I didn't ask for you to stay
In a shape I can constantly find and know to be Prince Charming,
Keep your damn Prince Charming.
I don't care for shapes, I care for how you are colouring inside and
Funny how 5 years old fill shapes in art assignments with single colours
Give me the whole damn colouring box
Because I don't care that you're marked 'R'.
I want magic.
I'm looking for a spectrum.
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