Embody - Love Hurts, and So Does the Way You Look Tonight

I see your softly rising chest in the wavering glow

of a dying flame.

This aggressive anonymity, this ugly wallpaper in a room built for escapism

Absorbs all the words spoken into the void. They melt,

indistinct snowflakes on the walls.

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My painful secret is

I am in love with you.

But I’m not in the business of saying true things.

What we know and what the movies don’t dare say

Is that love is just a shout into the void, and oblivion is inevitable.

But sometimes the brittle skyline of our dreams

Feel real as a crisp cool morning or

the scathing indifference of straight whiskey down the throat.

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I’ve always wondered,

Where do lovers go after the credits roll?

And when is the moment that ecstasy gives way to grief,

that this is merely the beginning

of the end?

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I know well that I will never be enough in this lifetime

To fill the fractures, and I am too cynical to try for

The fissured wishes of hidden goodbyes.

But I know how to hurt

For the constant choices of yesterday’s nights,

For the thunderstorm you’ve jammed close so hard, how to mourn

For all the words torn apart.

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You’ve pointed out my ribcage is a tattered enclosure for

The places that taught me how to love.

My heart is broken, my lips are wounds and

Your hands are incense burning my skin,

I am palms held open, praying for the way

You anoint the caverns and precipices of my body,

Redeeming, salvaging,

Here, right here between my aching lungs and your breathy heart-------------

--------------------------Here marks the X where we are clearly lost.

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