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I Thought I Saw Myself Tonight

I thought I saw myself tonight

In the cold, still water, bathing in the moonlight,

Her aqueous face reflecting my anamorphic strain.

I reached out my hand to pull her from her watery grave

And watched the drops of her features slip through my fingers.

The look of her distorted face still lingers.

I thought I saw myself tonight,

A featureless being blocking out the hazy glow of twilight,

Her shady figure exposing the murkiness of my soul.

She waved at me, a smokey hand I couldn’t hold.

I ran after her in vain and watched her struggling to leave,

Her elongated limbs blending in with the darkness of the trees.

I thought I saw myself tonight,

Trapped behind a pane of glass upright,

Her weary soul reflecting the tiredness in my bones.

I tried to break her free and watched her shatter on the floor.

In breaking out and breaking down, she finally got her chance to weep.

A million little pieces of Me, and none of them I get to keep.

My Intuition and I

I found my Intuition in the depths of my chest,

Trapped between the bars of my ribcage.

Years of muffled screaming had left her voice hoarse with rage.

In losing that voice, she’d taken to pounding at my heart,

Squeezing my throat, and waking me up with a start.

She was no longer a free spirit of wisdom and dreams.

Locked up in a cell of nightmares and tears,

She’d become the harbinger of all of my fears.

I found her key jammed into the tip of my tongue,

Rusted from waiting and scarred from being bitten for so long.

I wasted my days looking for someone to blame,

But after struggling with her lock and key,

I finally opened up and let my spirit free.

However, I found I could no longer understand her speech.

My Intuition and I are still learning to speak.