can I feel everything at once?
it is how I feel when I see you, my beloved—
grappling violently between
the edge of euphoria
and the pit of despair.
it is slowly getting brighter outside.
the horror clawing at me as my eyes snap open,
terrified of images that are intangible
and cannot harm me any longer.
it is slowly getting brighter outside.
how do i prolong love?
it’s as if I poured gasoline on my heart
lit it up
and expected it not to burn out in an instant.
I want the kind of love that smolders,
the kind that may not be passionate,
but ever present, ever warm, ever burning.
come lie with me in the embers, dearest.
we can curl up on the coals
and burn together.
on the two angels that visited me at work
matching white coats, dirty from being on earth too long; a kaleidoscope of color inside the younger one’s hood
they are mean to each other, but that’s just how angels are. it’s all they know. the taller one rolls its eyes— all of them— every time the younger one can’t make up xer mind. the younger calls it a slur in a language no one can speak.
more than a few dollars short for the wire cutters and sealant they need, so I hand them a twenty.
the taller one insists it doesn’t know me, I don’t see how that matters, so I tell it, “it’s a gift.”
but the word “gift” feels like the word “offering”
a last ditch attempt to appease a god who ignored me all my life
maybe this is a last piece; a last peace, a treaty.
and echoes in my mind whisper:
“be kind to strangers
lest they be angels in disguise”
in dedication to summer rain and the smell of petrichor
when you killed me, did god see?
did he look down from his opulence
did he see, in his glory
the death of a child
at the hands of the father
i think he did see
and in my eyes he remembered
when he looked away
at the death of his son
and turned a blind eye to my suffering
The sunset tonight.
have a cat.
-despite everything, there is still love
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