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made graves of your cheekbones

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you play these dangerous games with yourself
and sometimes when you hold your bones so delicate
it's as if you know mine are breaking

i stepped over the cliff and
fell shattered on to your chessboard
and you were so careful as you moved me into place
so clever, a charming man skipping his summer stones
buried his limbs in the black soil

i was always you pawn

but i am just a stranger and
as incapable now as i was at 14
i don't mind that my words
bounce off your porcelain skull

yours only buried themselves
in my skin when i needed to remember how to be
okay
and turned to ash in my hands

7/2/12

:iconlive-love-write:
prompt: dangerous games
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Sammur-amat's avatar
Something about this piece just made my bones ache, in a longing way.
You use your words so well, lovely!:heart: