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Inside of her cavernous ribcage's deep Huddled silently hide all the secrets she'll keep and a heart that's frozen from years of sleep Buried in frostbitten memories deep When ices thaw she may start to weep Before renewing snowfall with a long night's sleep Through the cracks in her ribcage the secrets will seep Memory pungent enough to anew her weep But through all a smiling face she'll keep As her soul turns icy beneath layers deep

The fluttered press Of butterfly kisses And wings on cage bars Can't best my heartbeat Now Beginning at the ending Would suffice Because time is of the essence And fairy tales aren't what they used to Be A fixture in my room Much like furniture; Your picture In my locket, on my heart Always kept me feeling I was at Home I wish my spirit were there Floating on whimsical grass And memoir flowers like a butterfly Graceful, like your touch with those self-same Kisses Against my skin, soft but wet A knife blade lingering after Being stabbed in the back A familiar face smiling as your heart slows to a Stop Please, this place is maddening me Th

My words are trapped In a conch shell Washed up on far off foreign beaches Spiraling inward obscuring Meaning amounting to waves Emotion Crashing, thrashing Fighting But amounting to echo Covered in sandy debris Glass shards and microcosmic Ecosystems From thousands of travelers Who can lay no claim Burying them in dunes When they could reign atop glorious castles Or become the refuge vulnerability Seeks shelter in A shell is an empty vessel But my words Deserve a body, a voice, a castle To crash as waves Enveloping and eroding The world's ragged edges to polish So I will continue to trek Dipping through muddied tide pools To reclaim tha

It's not quite if but when it hits the way it makes your bones stick to their guns and roses turned thorny lackluster approach reproaches and stony resolve always fails to impress on your needs or cut to the root and sow seeds of resolve and it falls upon you to address the letters you've written to unwrite this mess and success is less than a moment of greatness it's taking the leap over obstacles' faces at first it's a challenge and then it's a triumph it's not quite if the cup's volume is max but if your grit can stee/al it

If we drown Do not stand above us Echoing commiseration Holding a life vest With feet firmly on the sands If we drown Do not count the bubbles that rise Observing destruction Noting our breath should have held out longer As our lungs collapse If we drown Do not say you loved us Hands to sides While your neighbor holds our head down Maintaining your gaze If we drown Do not say we did this to ourselves Frenzied flailing Sinking each other in terrored self preservation When a boat is docked beside you The waters are cold And my heart is still so warm And you are still so safe So please Do not let us drown

We're living love like snowflakes Each moment unbidden Unique, fragile and finely crafted For [our] ever like landscapes Pressed permanent & pure Promises protecting and arms embracing and street lamps guiding home And flurries of frosty tendrils like Trimmed lace latticework Across broadening horizons And hopeful futures And promises ringing out like bells Nostalgic, bright, & full of dreams Whispered yet vibrant in hallowed halls Harboring a brand new dawn And warm bodies like blankets Covering carefully their dominion Wrapping wistfully around Protecting and preserving precious memories And white; white like snow Fresh-faced clean-sla

Shed your wolfskin clothes Join the fireside chanting We are all one tribe

I roll from the grave and brush off Dust of ages past, stories lived I might not shake each pebble from my unkempt hair And maybe that's what drags me down Is it too much to hope that you can shower over me Washing the remnants - and leaving me new

Beauty lives as hope Falling in droplets from eyes Knowing or longing