sleep sequence

Deviation Actions

ohsparrowsong

Published: Mar 20, 2013

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Literature Text

_{sleep doesn't work as a cure or remedy
when 3am leaves you clutching at the dark
clambering for stability in your personal ocean.

and you are quartz so the inside
of your skin is lined with the interior
monologues of vaporized shellfish.
sure, you could have saved them. but how else
could we communicate, if not for this ocean
digesting us softly and churning us into one?

you exhale, or maybe it was a sigh
i cannot tell anymore with your constant
breaking waves and breaking bones.
and you can talk about death in such
elegant phrasings of crescent moons claiming
and guiding lost souls.
but you never were so good at telling me about
your own personal little deaths.

the littlest deaths, the ones that slip
through the spaces between your fingers
when you hold your safety net so close against you
and so tightly. if i can't get that close to you
i'll swing the moon around your shoulders
so that no one can. because nothing else
in the solar system could be so stark
and yet so quieting.

but oh god, i heard and saw
and watched your internal galaxy explode
with a resonating and
devastating aftermath.
if you wanted a beautiful destruction
you certainly got it

but i would have stitched your spiracles
back together while you slept.}