let go before it poisons you

Let go before it poisons you

+ turns your blood to bitters

(you have swallowed the enemy)

let go before it skewers your heart

+ takes it apart

(nothing in the chambers but dust)

let go before you’re stuck

in the rewind

raising your hands to push against nothing

contorting your mouth to speak

against nothing

let go because the marks

they stamped into your body

will fade to scars + stories

(the things they said were never true anyway)

let go before the green life

gets bored + wanders off

(it can’t enter you unless you’re empty)

let go because that ledge

is crumbling

it’s time to learn

what waits to deliver you

when you fall.