.

 There is ariel swimming in my tongue

It's mermaid scales dripping blood in a red mixed with blue hues,

In memory of skins blooming in spring sun.

Once, not so long ago peace was there 

holding my heart in its soft palms. 

Intertwined in my hand was smile, it's thumb running through my knuckles.

Now my breath smells of uranium calling destruction 

while I find a strand of hair hidden on my rice,

black as my eyes.

I won't break the glass plate for that, because am not a man.

I am someone who wraps everything in my skin and move on like it doesn't matter.

I am someone who waits for your kisses knowing that you are searching for a place to hide inside me, not a home. 

I am someone who fits in polaroids without a problem, because am so small to this world. 

I am someone who melts like a cotton candy,

drying my tears in afternoon sun. 

I am someone who is like a goldfish in ocean thinking that it is the ocean itself .

I am someone who calls dandelions for a miracle, never tired of being a doormat. 

I am someone who apologizes for the weight I carry, but not to myself. 

I am someone who is indecisive like a cloud but moves along the wind with hope.

I am someone who is delicate as crockery, still trying to weave crochets of self love over me. 

Still you tell me riddles I forgot to reply while you leave me in the middle of the night. 

And still I hold you close to my memory. 

may be it is always me. 

My hands are cold incapable to tend your wounds so I cut them off

with your teeth you left on my collar bone.

It's all out of love, darling .

It's all out of love.

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