23 October 2022

Dead Words

We don't talk
These days.
Yet some silence
Lurks around,
In bits and pieces,
In Appeal.

We don't see 
Each other
These days.
Yet this longing
Hangs tight
Like a hungry bird
Poised to peck.

Memories of your
Scent.
Creases of your 
Skin. 
It's hard to sit
Idle with you 
All-over my head.

So I try to force
My thoughts,
Into fragility of
Some words. 
They eventually
Fall prey,
To fit into a noose 
And die dry on a 
Sheet of paper.

There's nothing
Blander than 
Watching dead words
And I'm swimming
In the smoke of 
My own funeral pyre.

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