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Chapter 38 - In Grief We Connect

They say you are never alone

"They" say we always have someone

They "say" it's going to work out

But only in the future does it smoothen itself

Those moments we bear

Like the birth of the universe

Through bleeding eyes

And pulsing minds

Sharp pains and contractions in the heartbeat

Gut us honestly

And wring out every poison we have lapped from rotten boots

Every poison from rusted blades

Knotted binds in our chest

And our Lungs run out of liquid between the bone

And stick to our ribs

These moments we bear

Like the death of the soul

Sitting suffocating

On silent hills

Far off from childhood

Blind to the grasses itch

Painfully sensitive to the kids laughing and smiling without us,just over the hill

Curled up in our home

Called our body

We have never felt more isolated

We sob

Beg and plead for release

Wailing to the stratosphere

For a single clarifying breath

We choke again

Hyperventilating,there is too much air around us

Too much oxygen,it burns heavy

These moments we share

Across the nation

All over the globe

In that moment

Of our most gutteral cry

Our sob of desperation is multiplied tenfold

Is it intensified with the power and surge of everyone who is mourning

And that is the salt in our tears

That scorches our eyes

And the spit

That clogs our throat

Strangling our cries

It is the rasp and the tear

That plagues our sobs

And it is the tension

That snaps in our minds