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Lyrics in your head
Words that haunt like home
Sliding fingers across your throat
And pulling threaded water from your eyes
Remember a place
Without walls
Roof
Or boundaries

Thoughts flutter
Like the butterfly in the jar
Feelings drained
Blood in a syringe

You whimper at night
Lying in the dark
Sounds of breathing
Ticking
Sinking
Syrup-thick air
Veils you
Slithers in your heart

The dark is homeless, too.