–

reading myself again

i have the unrelenting desire

to kill that man

but he is long since dead

not with the smells of a forest captured

but a single lonely tree long since forgetting

what it felt like to touch the sun

spread in your red rolling eyes

*

you take what

you can give

because

you give what

you can take

*

time heals all wounds

but i am dead now

with a watch i cannot read

though it mocks me minutely

*

they will tell you to love

and you will spend a lifetime

thinking you were meant to love

those who told you as much

but it is only you you you

who must learn to love

yourself

so much

that they will one day come back

wanting

willing

and speechless