To a stranger, confessed my life with ease to caring ears, and I felt relieved.

He reciprocated, and it felt good to feel a sense of balance, for once.

Feelings piercing skin
tensing bone
nothing stored for yourself
control stolen, hope lost
the 5am struggle to sleep
Not a speck of time
to breath

Head space packed and swelling:
abusive ideas with heavy fists
bashing fragile flesh and mind
damaging and destroying
feeding self doubt
and insecurity
starving the soul

Struggling to like yourself,
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You attempt to control the universe
with your woes….
Treat galaxies like specks of dust…
and remain aloof to the stars…
expecting it all to revolve around you.

I fell into the waves….
one minute I was perfection….
the next a scrap of waste…
torn to shreds by wanting to understand your tides…
the whats and whys.

But I no longer sympathesize
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I tried to let it go
but the teeth of the traps took my fingertips as well
I been numb in my hands since then
I have to touch the faces for a long long time to be sure I’m feeling something

It seems like this will be the aftermath of a lovers emotional catastrophe; and then comes the healing...