randomflyingpigeons

Impacted Two hearts nestled comfortably together. Then, cutting up through bone and skin, I lodged my own between the two. I left it growing in sideways— Nuzzling against one, Grinding its crooked veins into the other. Each heart began a dull, throbbing beat that reached its way up through clenched teeth to aching minds. Lightheaded and weary, I breathed in, and laughed in pain until I fell asleep. With a sharp crack, Reality awoke me with its fist to my jaw, To alert me to the abscess of my heart's absence. I inhaled shards into the bare rawness, And poured in endorphin's nepenthe. I am drunk on glorious pain, Stumbling