pain

January 8, 2014

The bruises aren't always visible.

They'll stay hidden away in the echoes of my memory.

And when they start to ache like the age old song of love,

I'll pick and scratch at my skin in hopes

to make it all seep through and

out into the air so it may fly away.

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