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Your Name MAG
your name falls out of my mouth
like water,
synonymous with the rain.
your name –
I keep it in the back of my throat,
where it echoes for all eternity
like a tired orchestra,
your name –
I feel the power of it
when the world crashes in on itself,
I heard the same sounds when
the night caved in and we
caught the falling stars,
your name –
it carries the weight of the world
in five letters,
it’s chained to my tongue and it’s
pressed up against my slippery shoulders,
(it pulls me to the ground,
so I swallow down)
your name –
and everything it stands for,
the sadness it drags and the
shattered smiles, they’re all smeared into
your name –
it falls out of my mouth like water,
like broken glass and cracked skin,
so I run my lips under the fountain of peace,
I spit you out of my heart one final time, and
your name –
it drips out through my bruised body,
my hollow bones,
my silence-stained teeth, and
your name –
it comes out dry.
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