you were once a radiant stranger
that figured dimly in the back
but when i felt my stomach seething
you kept yr hand over my mouth
you were just an apparition
trembling vaguely in my wounds
until i took you to the river
to exorcise yr bleeding ghost
as the night bleeds into morning
i can't move outside yr space
assign the strangest appellations
to the movement in yr brain
i can't shake this subtle feeling
that settles deep beneath my veins
i can't take these limbs for granted
i can't say it to yr face

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