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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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