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fault lines
May 19, 2014
3 a.m. on a Monday night, your words
rive my skin like
pavement when an earthquake
strikes
and I swear these fault lines will never
piece perfectly back
together
leaving me in fragments, body parts
like continents
whose grounds will never again be
walked by you
because you’ve found new
territory,
a frontier in the stars
to which my dusty fingers may never
reach
© Krystal B., Bloomingdale , IL
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1299836 said...
on Jun. 4 2014 at 11:40 pm
i love the relation to an earthquake, and especially the parts, "3 am on a Monday night" and "and I swear these". It adds concrete concepts that are relateable and a sort of teen angst. your choice of line separation in the first and third stanzas really contribute to the fragmented feel of the poem. Beautiful!
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