Love Painted Here (The Original)

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Sunday, August 08, 2004

You Have Left

an unclosing wound
unhealing
it persists
this pain
jabbing under
breastbone
like arrows
or dagger
spiny point
of starfish
buckles me over
stabbed version of myself
animal now
all talking
figuring
processing
through
what is left
is bleeding
losing you
can feel fine
flesh of fingertip
trace its way
down crest of bone
beneath cheek
like a tear
once wiped away
what is left
is this losing
wound of you
what happened
how does not matter
only the pain
rumbling
tectonic plates
clavicles heaving
pain shooting
like a star
momentary down
from dark sky
of chest
I feel
its fire
burning
away
eventually
you.