"don't you know there are things i never learned,"

"teach me how to read your sign language."

divergence

my body is a sieve

the fleeting feelings leak from the open wounds.

wanting to be cauterized under a killing moon

punctures and perforations alleviating the ever-building pressures of anxiety and lament.

formed & fractured

the blistering skin breaks as we reach our limits

the bones splinter and sever our inner tenderness

the marrow seeping out and clouding our lifeblood

i smile as i've come to realize that our mutual anesthetic has run out.

decay

i've destroyed the mantra, liberated, dispelled.

discovered that what i had was not mine to lose.

this is the mural of heaven, painted with the colours of hell.

you were once my tourniquet, but now you've become my noose.

threadbare

"let the child drown," she said as we were woefully desolate

eyes drawn to the sight of suffering

save the child, save its last breath

transforming a burden into a blessing