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One Week Of Losing You

A poem to tell you how I feel.

Meghna Prakash
Apr 03, 2017
Boston University
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One Week Of Losing You
Meet Mindful

I: Monday

I pour myself a cup of coffee.

Wear my pant suit

Adjust my hair

Smear kohl

The room smells

Of pain and death

Like the whispering

Of melancholy

That lodged itself onto my chest

As you left...

II: Tuesday

I'm sinking into sheets

And cigarettes

Make my peg of whiskey

Stronger tonight

Some more ice

Less abandonment.

III: Wednesday

Is it morning already?

I can barely tell.

Is the sky mourning

At losing its darkness too?

Pain trembles

Under my skin

With a lopsided grin

I close my eyes

My blades will give me company tonight

Bloodstains

Really bring out

The color

On my sheets.

IV: Thursday

We are so forgettable

Plain face

Two eyes

A full mouth

A penis

My vagina

Different arms

Comfort

Me

Tonight

V: Friday

Think I managed

To feed myself today

Bread crumbles and whiskey

Think if I looked

hard

enough

My puke looks like you

So do the walls

And the birds

And the ceiling

That just wouldn't stop

Spinning

VI: Saturday

Didn't kill myself today.

My wrists are tired

Of bruises

My black skin

Barely glows with red

Purple

Your hits were bolder.

Banging me against the wall

Grabbing my hair

Pounding me

Think I'm only familiar

To the pain you inflict

Did you really leave me?

You've been gone so long

How many days has it been?

VII: Sunday

1.55 am

Your name flashes

I pick up

Trembling

"I'm seeing someone else".

Black.

- www.rantingsofanartist.wordpress.com

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