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No Longer Remembered 11.11.23 “Moving Out"

It seems no distance is too great To cease the injuries Spoken and struck No height of accomplishment Nor miles moved Not even years long passed Even I, battered, broken even stride As I love myself, truly know Against these daggers of misfortune Inopportunely raised Shatter upon me like rain upon the brow Break beneath me as the earth is shook asunder Crack around me as the glass from my own voice No longer, wrong as it is Leave me, unbothered I will move freely in a world inhospitable To my desires A bruise or scrape Inconsequential To the story eagerly shared

Whispers in the dark,

hot breath on my ear

A longing that can never be satisfied

Finding comfort in bodies,

but not in faces

because the one person I crave

will never be mine

So I hide in the darkness

and imagine that

the hands

touching me

are his