The cracks in the wall remind me of you,

Their tiny twisting fingers like veins,

winding up through plaster and

Pressing unwanted gifts into a sweaty palm,

Until spider web constructions

 slip their strings to the floor,

 only to shatter and unveil

their bodies caked in blackness.

The trailer slumps in a brown-green field,

Its frame in pieces behind

Broken nets o...

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I wish upon the stars of
Your coveted mind,
Covered in cobwebs of thoughts 
Avoiding mine,
Wishful thoughts asking why they exist,
Passive buoys raise bodies to surfaces
Stained with your words,
Remarks as fleeting as dotted stars,
Mapping the route to treasure
Never buried.
Beneath the sand sinks hope and glory,
Born with teeth as thick as mountain walls,
Silver water gleaming 
Impos...

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She pulls a shawl with porous tears around her shoulders,

shivers of trivial advances by cloaked men in all

The colours of her nightmares;

Consigning to herself in comfort,

The falsities of their words ,

She tugs at the sagging skin from her face,

Worn elastic band strands that

Had not been there last time she checked,

Overlooked by suffocating clacks of red heels on tarmac...

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She watches the walls

Breathing in 

Grey reflections,

Spitting out shrouded giants

With elongated hands,

Grasping their shoulders,

Shuddering, she wonders

How they fail to notice

Their surroundings.

Stepping out from the walls

Like monkey bars at the play park,

Swinging from one step to

The next, not knowing 

What is beneath them.

Drops of crumbled rocks

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Bones shatter into

Splintering pieces,

Droplets of darkness fall

From the ceiling. 

Evaporation of thoughts

Disintegrating downwards 

Towards pores of stalling traffic,

Air, breath, breaking 

Walls down

With overwhelming noiselessness

Creeping furtively 

Onto your back

Stacking weights of widening

Cinder blocks bit by 

Bit

Biting wind reminds you of 

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Church bells echo through landlocked corridors,

Wandering in wasted spirits

Whose silhouettes

Stop at the crossroads, watching

Thatched houses burn from the roof down,

etching grooves as deep as the ocean floor, forcing

falling debris into forgotten holes.

The needle spins as they draw a breath,

Baiting you to hold yours,

Waiting to witness the next direction,

more un...

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Stygian water is filling over the sides of the tub,

Bathing me in nothing but blackness

For so long, it is no trouble to feel my way

Through darkness, wetness soaking my cheeks

Like an unmovable stain,

    cannot feel

The sun rays, memories

playing on blades of glass beneath my feet.

I know nothing anymore,

Not of you, not of joy

Not of anything,

anywhere to chase,

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Fingers interlocked in never promises,

Hair-lifting breath on my neck whispering love on

a carousel, plane ticket tucked in pockets, we

watch the maps split in half,

Countours broaden on two sides

Standing, overlooking stomach dropping 

cliff heights, chalky white walls stained

with fingernails down its sides, 

exhilaration does not exist in this scene.

Broken seas

wa...

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Wishbones break through tree-top laughter,

water fountains

Adorned with gargoyles 

Glaring their demonic eyes at

The garden gnomes,

Golden shells of fish skin

glint indigo flashes in the gaps of their smiles,

Droplets of water collect in the open

Mouths of grassy stalks.

Haggard rags hang off her shoulder

with eyes refracting slivers of light

which reach nothi...

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Plastic detritus wraps itself round

waving legs of jellyfish,

hidden in virulent breaths of 

the ocean,    floating through

patches of matted hair,

caught in metal teeth.

Innocent flowers

diminish and decay,

millions

melt into nothing,

too far away      to feel

lamenting cries     lost families,

howls and hounds

choke and die in the black air

of factory fo...

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Listless eyes roam over the ripples of despair,

Staring back at his, hers blushing at his laughter which is,

Half-hearted, half-bored,

like she's an afternoon omnibus, 

Performance only enough to keep half of his atttention

on those trembling lips, whispering

Something incomprehensible, which you know is only,

thinly veiled pleading, pleasing you that it is

Your feet she ha...

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Follow first from the faded curtains: blue, green and red, with frayed edges,

Lazily exhaling cold breaths of air like their last words, before

Looking onto creaking floorboards,

A luminescent pathway to the door, their light source

Several small scorch marks, marching in twos,

Too-large outlines of size twelves shoes that,

Have been so fruitlessly, scrupulously scrubbed, with

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Two minutes in, the symptoms start:

Sweaty palms, racing heart,

Shadows that dart across walls, and I catch

Them in the corner of my eye before

 they disappear.

Nothing, something, nothing is there.

Head jolts, body shudders, skin begins crawling

Into itself. There 

are creaks on the stairs.

Breathe in.

One

two

three. Feel

My heart beating heavy rhythms so ha...

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That Night You relapsed,   Collapsed into yourself,

I wish you knew;

How your family called,  left unanswered voicemails, Or

Remembered your dog, waiting by his bowl,

Gnawing your empty slipper,

Clawing at bedsheets that smelled too old.

That night You put in more poison to ease the burn,

With chemicals playing toxic tunes on your turntables,

Did you guess that would fix th...

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I wish that I could               Grasp onto some of that

Self-confidence, which so strongly seeps out of me,

Know how to harness it,

Instead of wondering where it comes from,

Wishing people might believe me when I said

that i am scared, and alone with my wretched thoughts

which only clone themselves, over and over

in twisted mutations of their original forms,

wishing they ...

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Today I was reminded of you again;

the stain of your lips on my cheek seemed

Darker than normal.

I traced a hand over it, pretending 

It was yours,

But my frozen touch will never,

Feel so warm.

Today I thought it was time

to forget those sores,

like you'd ever let me. You 

love instead to hook me in, with that look in 

Your eye, that pulled so many toward you

be...

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The dreams seep back again,

The ones you know all too well, where

I am screaming,  so hard, that waking is as easy

as having no choice. Throat too,

Wasted away, soaked by my own sadness, stopping it

 breathing, and I

lose myself              along with my voice.

The drink was in my mouth before I had

The chance to turn it down, ground myself, twist my head

The right way ...

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Loss lingers on your breath like cigarette smoke,

Back bent beneath a frame, almost unable

to carry its own shame anymore.

There are no burning cinders to revive, to try

Stoke in that

Burnt-out fire, feeling its way through smoke

That rose years ago, but still throws you

forwards, and downwards and makes you

Choke,

On your own insincerity, which is barely even aware

O...

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Some nights, brief glimmers

roll over and reappear, displaying pink bellies of times,

Where the world walked hand in hand

by, in unblinking steps,

by step, feet sinking slowly like sand,

into a ground which is swallowing them whole.

And my fear of falling, letting the grains

suck in my feet like shackles, is all but forgotten

in the face of feeling something again,

for t...

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You tickled me with your eyes,   blinked

feather-light touches which

made my stomach clench.           

  Like,

      when you said it was 

Goodbye, and the laughter

                                                   stopped.

I had to rinse your sight from memory, watch

it slide

        down the drain,    as an

                           engagement ring, fallen in the...

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"It's not you..

                          It's me,

Sitting on the shoulders of this tumbling giant, 

                                                                     Trying,

To believe       that the rocks at the

Bottom won't, 

                            rip me apart by the seams.

It is not you, waving coarse words                      which are,

Wondering if you could...

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She stands in a puddle with

No shoes on her feet, umbrella inside out, still

skirting the street. Cobbled rocks gleam

black diamond dams,

She stands, hand raised and smiling

So sweetly a greeting, with jeans

dark, hair dripping black tears so terribly those

Trees beating their trunks stop

for a second, so solemn and

Lose the leaves of their years. They thud,

she splas...

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