Four Nights in a Row
the face – precise in its emotional arrangements
the voice – magician’s daggers aimed at my weakness
such vivid torments alive with bloated scenarios that weight
my ankles like chained cement though not to drown but to choke
on the poison of unanswered whys –
one never really leaves when blood is involved


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