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poetry

I haven't heard the last words he left.

"I lock you in dark dorm rooms
In places where, 
I am nothing more 
than my father's son.
And a faint shadow in the corners of your eyes."

The fan gives you colds
And you love in bated breathes,
You're scared
Of who you are and what it means
To be a shadow 
in a world 
you tower over
So I sit beside you, 
cut my love into throwing stars, 
so you hold them in your palms
Draw my blood from their edges
Kiss their warmth
Thumb my love in the forms
I give.

You stand in all 4 corners of this room.
We dance in the center
You share freely, 
love flies around the room as ladybugs
I catch them in glass bottles.

I am alone in the center.
Your things are in the corner,
My things are at the door.
The walls are peeling.
The bottle is in my hand, 
The ladybugs are tsetsefly now.
My stars are rubbish.