A Long Night Inside
Part 2 of a collaboration with Garnet following “Wildfire”
I stood on your embers
expecting the soles
of my feet to burn.
“SEAR ME NOW”
I need the scars present
for when I am not.
visible remains
make explaining
less of a task.
Perhaps I should eat you
swallowing the bites
I’m unable to chew?
digest you
all the way out?
Ashes to ashes,
dust to dust
sometimes charcoal
tastes better
than this reality
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But lately? I’ve lost my appetite.
I’ve lost
right from wrong,
somewhere between
home and away.
Deep inside
I still feel
your howl
distant and faint
like everything now
I’m burning my desires
dropping my passions
in this pit
waiting for the explosion
that burst you
back into
my existence
hiding behind
this cloak of fear
I curl up by the fire
and repeat
I am not this skin
“not this skin”
not
this
skin
Wild Flower (Jess Banks) is an Australian based writer. Lover of coffee, chocolate, and rum. Excited by nature, adventures, and poetics. Still discovering who she is and openly writing about her faults and triumphs.
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