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Scraps #4

  • MCD
  • Oct 7, 2016
  • 1 min read

You were a sea

But I was afraid of how the tides might change

So I never went in

And instead lay on the sand and thought about swimming

 

Let’s roll the stone, shed the lichen

 

I asked you to love me and my voice kept shaking

 

A thousand lies of twice spun glass

 

Ivory teeth, crocodile set

 

I spent all my time in the search for the magical maybe

 

“Flee”, they cried, as they pushed me forward

 

I lay next to you, skin to skin, and waited for you to guess my real name

 


 
 
 

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