Empty. see right through me. no. empty, but...
broken. hardly. i bend. i stretch. snap back again...

Such unusual ideas caught in dead eyes.
hope bereft. faith unkind...

I'm sitting here thinking there's something I...
That I ought to, but can't. That I am not who I...

I know that you're lying. just not what you're...
and who's to say. where is my position so much...

Said the tiger to the lion -
behold my stripes...

I remember seeing you as a small child,
playing with dolls...

Wading through memory. upstream. i really just...
maybe i'm oversimplifying. i could be just a...

Where in the beat of a heart does the love sit...
where in that bottle do i hope to find happiness...

To whom is the sunlight given. for whom does...
the patina of each life hides the subtle...

Write to yourself. write to them. bite down on the...
sit. sit quietly with furrowed brow. imagining...