I held those impossible words And let them S P I L L Slipping as easily from pages as They slid from your lips Forming blurry pools Fit to drown Their poison seeps downward Slowly Burning through eyes And mind And throat Catching fire Within a heart that has wings It beats itself bloody and Tears through my chest Breaking open the flesh Despair rises, roaring To peck at my head with the Hurt She claws out my eyes Blinding me with fiction How I lie to myself to let go And get through This loneliness Must mean victory, Lover I imagine to forget Everything