Let Me Be-Sandy Beach
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91 words that make you feel like a full and blooming flower.
Ethereal
Fresh
Dewy
Soft
Running out of words like
An Olympic track athlete running from the nightmares of a broken childhood.
Haunted by the angry parent that ate and ate until they were filling up with what was once the child’s dream and hope, morphing into anger.
A stop-sign with eight edges
Like a Gemini with many different sides- always rotating.
The only way you can tell which side they’re on is by looking at the word doʇs
You’re stuck in the back of my throat.
I am not a poet.
I am nothing but sand, sifting between hands.
I am not a poet.
I only feel like one.
Don’t let my glass skin deceive you.
You are not a dream and we do not taste like salt.
But I trip over my tongue with a salty uncertainty.
Flood me with your agony. I can take it.
Allow me to be your vessel.
Flood me with your snow.
I am the sun now.