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3 words too many

Posted on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 by Torrey

Whisper them if you must-

I know petty better

than this.

Avalanche and silence and nothing

and broken words that I need to feel

deeper than you can give.

For now, you say

anyway

I’ll try and hold that declaration

Pin it to my own cross.

palms pierced

blood as ink-

blood as binding.

My own workings

that I don’t call upon.

Their price is too much,

the magics too strong.

I’ll have to give up more

more than parts of myself

this time.


But I am slipping

Or are they pulling?

Towards that place again

that I felt was swallowed 

by hearts and livers

last time.


I don’t pull things out of hats anymore,

much to my grandfather’s disappointment.

He was always one for parlour tricks and

hidden thumbs-

Can’t say I was ever to prestige,

but

deeper beings

don’t worry

about consequences

of giving freely

what should be earned.

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