Frankenstein

Holly Day

 

 

inhale and it gets so dark, when did night stop being

stars and moon and lightning bugs and become

only black?

 

exhale and it’s light again, thunder rolls a second later

water runs along the ground and cuts great shapes

around your feet

 

inhale sometimes when it’s quiet, all you hear are people shouting

flames and noise and all you see

is red and real and fades to night

 

exhale out the streams of steam that carry all you are and dream

of lying back on satin sheets

succumbing to what should’ve been your life

 

his hands are all that lies between

these screaming nights

these waking dreams

 

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