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these days my skin refuses to bleed words on paper; I've lost a battle against my  own craft

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these days my skin refuses
to bleed words on paper;
I've lost a battle against my
own craft.

the ink is sealed shut within
my veins—these thoughts have
bloated my belly and I am, well,
I am a blank parchment.

thou shall not spill us on this piece
of paper, thou shall remain restless.
are these voices I hear? voices of
words I never knew could speak.

we speak, we haunt, we refuse to bleed.
and I try to draw magic into the silent
air but the sound escapes into a void
of nothingness. and I try again to fill
all these gaps I built over the years
but the lingering memory stays near.

choke on your own art, succumb to
doom and despair.
these beings are frozen, this eternal
silence bewitches my mind into
thinking of the end.

do it.
has it turned against me? I can see
the tide, I can see myself drowning
if only I could—

                            do it.

                            do it

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