"ignore"
By The Blood and The Bones
Someone said glimmers are little memories or moments that make you feel calm
make you feel connection
though for me, connection has become a dirty word
or maybe it was peace they meant, if that’s something you’re capable of
or glimpses of happiness you have or had or could have?
I don’t know..
Because I just ignore them
neither of us in a position to reach
not wanting to consider how the bloom cut the blade
how the water would have smoothed the stone
but you live there
in a glimmer burrowed into the cerebral tissue of the past
hardwired into something that might have been want
curiosity knocks ever so slightly on a closed door
despite protests and common sense
I did, I know I did
I felt something I couldn’t name and even if I don’t feel it anymore
something stays, welcome worn
nagging, dreaming, sweltering
glimmering
woven into this idea of saving someone
living a life they didn’t ask for
The Blood and the Bones is the pseudonym for a former lover of a US servicemember. Follow her here.
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