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A Coin With Tails On Both Sides


today i saw the trees bloom. 
i saw their buds unfurl, miniature fingerlings 
reaching into the world, and i-
i forgot about how you made me feel. 
i won’t let you off that easy, no, 
i know you didn’t intend it and 
you may never know that i didn’t intend it, 
either. but today i saw the trees 
and i felt the sun open me up and spoon out
the dark parts inside of me 
until my hollow places felt whole.

 

please leave me alone. 
i didn’t want to have to say it, 
but now i taste you in everything, 
and i am trying to expel you from my body
like an exorcism, and i am too tired
to go on. the thing is 
i convinced myself that loving you
was the best thing i had ever done. 
now i know. 

 

i didn’t want to compare you to god, 

not again, but the matter is this-
i am always praying to something
silent. i am always loving someone
who still holds me beneath the water. 
you and god both have something 
in common. you cannot hurt me
anymore.

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