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when i left our house screaming
I am worried.
I am worried that when I left our house
Its windows still aflame
I forgot all that I had given
No longer had a name
Yet still through the smoke
Pieces of me laid there
They were the walls
The carpet
The chair
Clouded in smoke
Through my watery eyes I choked
I watched them curdle and burn
Soon to be nothing here
I must save them
Carry them out my lair
They are mine not yours
Despite my despair
In a beautiful puff of black flame
My foundation grows lame
My heart thrashes against its cage
I vomit
I starve
I wane
I cannot hold them any longer
Why are you cackling
Like a vulture in the air
What is so funny
About my deepest despair
Why are your eyes so dark
I see no light
No spark
When did it start
When did you burn my house down
Simply on a lark
Or a long plan
I do not know
Was it all a silly show
But the flames licks my face
Our house you have defaced
I cannot take my walls back
They are too heavy
Too old
Too strong
My dear old friend
I must leave them all
Or I will never leave
at all
I must run out screaming
Into the night air
I must save myself
Or be crushed under your giggles
And your black eyed stare
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