Protagonist
there’s a time to
be giving to those who need
what we have to give away
because you love them
but there are people
that will never understand
what you’re handing them
they take
and
take
and
take
and
take
because they’ve never felt
what it is like to pull
your own heart through
the narrow spaces
of your jagged ribs
don’t talk to us about loss
and love and pain
we’ve been there
standing on a back road at night
barefoot
no car
no home
not a single
fucking
person
to hear our spines
break
under the weight of it all
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Damn. That last stanza. Well done.
This was really powerful for me.