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Excellent evisceration

Dhmis fan-poetry

By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 3 years ago • 1 min read
Duck & Red fan art (not my art)

Eviscerated: defined

A cut inside like a deep insight

A bright mirror brought to my soul,

Like yours, it smells like a homemade childhood memory no one could've altered or made up

A deep learning without any explaination

You just knew me without a word,

How did you know my heart like it was an extension of your own beat?

I've been eviscerated before, you've been cut up before

Was that a nightmare?

Was the can full of guts

Our slowly numbing minds?

The house that has tried to put us to sleep

To keep me from you,

From my family,

I tried to run from it

To take you and our son far away from

But

It keeps making us feel safe in

That toxic phantasmagorical

Mirror, where

The evidence of the evisceration does not leave a physical scar

But inside our dreams

Like hope,

It's cuts through it like a numbing agent

An excellent evisceration

Yelling, “wake up!”

Won't sever this deep think-tank

But maybe

A can full of

“I love looking at you’s” might.

Not my art

heartbreaklove poemsperformance poetry

About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

Fanfic account

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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    Written by Melissa Ingoldsby