Common Sense

Give me silence and give it to me like a drug.

Inject it into the shallow waters of my veins

Until something bursts, something bruises,

Leaves a bloody mark that proves it was here.

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It lived inside of my chest like a mother bear,

Asleep to the world but devastatingly hungry,

Starving despite chewing on sugared silence.

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Store memories in my veins like nightmares,

Press them into the backs of my eyelids until

All I see when I close my eyes is the ghostly

Afterimage of something that was spectacular.

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I want to remember the high and the crash,

The good as it wrapped its legs around the bad

And fucked the common sense right out its head.