Caricamento in corso...

Shells.

Let me step outside of my body,
and leave the solid form behind.
I will shed my skin,
smooth and supple and moist.
I will take off this shell
and smash it to the floor,
a thousand shiny cold pink fragments,
collect around your feet
and decorate them,
oh my dear you’ve never looked quite as beautiful
as you do now.
 
Let my words get left behind
shall we watch them fall to the floor?
With the weight,
of cold granite.
I swear they made cracks
where ripples once flowed.
 
Oh don’t you ask questions,
of why and who and what,
don’t you look at me like that you know
I can’t explain these things.
 
Let me cleanse my soul
I will walk through this hot hell
of scalding reprimand
and recoil in horror
at all of my sins
with impure eyes half covered
behind these jaded hands
if I must, if I must.
 
Let me couple my thoughts with yours
I want to watch you twist and squirm,
like a dying bird.
Stand still, very silent
and take it all,
take it all from me.
 
You can watch me laugh,
hyena laugh,
oh what a relief
—it is to laugh like that!
Falsetto echo
bounces across these whitewashed walls,
and settles like an insidious fog
over you
Can you feel that?
 
I am free.
 
I am a clenched palm relaxed
a shake stilled
a heartbeat slowed
an eye opened
and shut.
Shut me out
from this place,
shut me down
dear
so I am nothing but
these two black cavities.
How could you not see
I wanted nothing else
but this.

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