Too Late

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By bedazzled

Your heartclap words thunder through the silence. Two pulses wrestle. Long ago mother-daughter percussion was forgotten. Took each blood clot, built a wall around my centre so you couldn't touch the truth. We don't speak. There's only black ribbons prettily adorning an empty box of silence. Bones starved of fulfilment, I engrave them with his love but you could only break them, couldn't you? I hurl storm-words because I don't want to feel the rain. I don't want to know. Shove down the locks and disguise the betrayal of the betrayed. You forgot about me. I can only hear your blame, your icy critiques and icicle stabs. You forgot, I bled, and now it's too late for heart-clap words, Mum.

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September 10, 2008 17:55ray!

'I hurl storm-words
because I don't want
to feel the rain.'

I love it.