SPOILED VEINS

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I’m feeling

so faded

today.

my dry skin pales

in comparison

to the clammy hands

of yesterday,

boiling over and

shaking in horror.

when I woke up today,

my body felt

so far away.

this spoiled blood

in my veins

should vaccinate

my body against

this quivering pain

but it doesn’t.

I keep telling myself,

“it’s over now,

I’m safe.”

but my heartstrings,

threaded through

the eye of a needle,

play the frantic melody

of a fight song

on a broken fiddle.

like a hero saying,

“I am not okay.”

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BOOK THREE COMING SOON.

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