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quietwrite — Callus
Published: 2009-08-23 06:18:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 67; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 2
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There’s callus where there was once organ.What once pumped red blood through your veins
now pumps only alcohol and dust.
You’re fading,
but that’s not the worst part.
No, the worst part is
that you’re letting yourself fade.
Everything that haunts you
is consuming you.
Turning you into a fleshy ghost.
Turning you into a shell of a man.
Oh, how I long to shave the callus away from your soul!
How I desire to bring life back into you!
There’s a human being somewhere in there
and everyone you still love;
every nightmare you still have
is evicting the human.
I wish I could let you live what’s left of your life as a fleshy ghost,
but I just can’t.
It will consume me in the end.
I don’t want to be a shell.
I want to live and love and be happy.
I don’t want to die in mourning
over the loss of a few lovers
and I don’t want to let little things
get to me and eat me alive.
I don’t want to implode.
